Re: prevent email

Hello, 

> How to prevent or reduce cricket from sending emails. When a system is
> down every 5 minutes a mail is generated. Sometimes this can be quite a
> lot.


I doubt cricket itself (the collector) is sending you these E-mails. More
likely it's the cron system that is generating mail upon receiving output
from the collector every time it runs it. 

Several options for you: 
* redirect all output from the collector to a file (append ' > /dev/null 2>&1'
to the crontab-lines that contain "collect-subtrees" you want to mute)
* specify an alternative user to send the mail to by adding a MAILTO
environment variable assignment to your crontab
* filter the output of the "collect-subtrees" lines using a script you make
(tip: awk(1))
* filter the mails to another mailfolder with procmail(1) to be able to
analyze them later


In case you run GNU/Linux, you can look for the crontab in /etc/cron.d/
(/etc/cron.d/cricket in my case), or with 'crontab -l' if you run the
collector from a per-user crontab.


I prefer to keep and read the E-mails though, to (needless to say) solve
problems when they occur...


kind regards, 
  koen.


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