Re: cron jobs overly verbose

He did mention that he didn't want to miss error messages.

'> /dev/null' would mute stdout but not stderr

'>/dev/null 2>&1' would mute both stdout and stderr

At least on Linux, this also mutes both: '&> /dev/null'



On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:14 PM, David Newman <[email protected]>
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 the
> quote 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?
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