Re: cron jobs overly verbose
David Sims <[email protected]>
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Hi, So... Is there are problem with silencing the STDOUT and leaving STDERR alone? x x x x x <path_to_program> 1>/dev/null Dave ************************************************************************ On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, David Newman wrote: > > > On 8/11/15 12:12 PM, David Newman wrote:> On 8/11/15 10:06 AM, Marc Fournier wrote:>>>> how are ppl setting up their cron jobs? Getting one of these a day is annoying:>>>> 2015-08-04 03:00:00 Maia: [stats-snapshot] Updating stats history table.>>>> But, there doesn’t appear to be a way to turn that off *without* turning off any error messages that might also be generated … > > You can silence STDOUT and STDERR messages from cron jobs. The syntax> differs per operating system. On FreeBSD, something like this at the end> of the cron command will work:> >> /dev/null 2>&1 > Sorry, Thunderbird treated the redirect as a quote. Do this, without thequote marks, at the end of a cron command in FreeBSD to silence output: > '> /dev/null 2>&1' > dn > > > But, per your comment below, if there's a problem with a cron job, you> probably want to know about it.> >>>> Or getting something like:>>>> Argument "2.49_01" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.20/forks.pm line 1570.>>>> Not a bug / problem …> > It is a known bug in the perl forks.pm module, and a problem in that it> causes the process-quarantine.pl script to terminate.> > I posted a patch on this mailing list a few days ago:> > http://www.renaissoft.com/cgi-bin/mailman/private/maia-users/2015-August/016668.html> > dn> >>>> I want to know if there is a problem, but I only want those kind of email’s … not the ‘its running great’ messages …>>>> Anyone?>> _______________________________________________>> Maia-users mailing list>> [email protected]>> http://www.renaissoft.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/maia-users>>> _______________________________________________> Maia-users mailing list> [email protected]> http://www.renaissoft.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/maia-users> _______________________________________________Maia-users mailing [email protected]://www.renaissoft.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/maia-users > _______________________________________________ Maia-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.renaissoft.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/maia-users