crontab

[Chris]

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> stuart.gibson at bridgeman.co.uk wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a number of scripts that run every night using a crontab.  In 
>> my crontab file I'm using the MAILTO flag to get cron to email me 
>> every time it runs which results in a lot of emails.
>>
>> Is there any way of instructing cron to only email me if the cron job 
>> fails?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Stuart Gibson
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> Sure!
> 
> 
> Redirect stderror to /dev/null:
> 
> /bin/sh /home/me/myscript > /dev/null
> 
> And this one won't mail you, whether it errors
> or not....
> 
> /bin/sh /home/me/myscript > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 
> Kevin Kinsey
> DaleCo, S.P.

Very cool! Now, what if you do the same, but instead of the normal 
crons, can something like this be done with the /etc/periodic/daily, 
weekly, and monthly routines?

-- 
Best regards,
                  Chris
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