No output from periodic

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Jul 8 08:31:49 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jul 08), Elliot Finley said:
> I have a periodic that runs every 15 minutes.  I have 5 scripts in
> the directory that it processes.  Most of the time, the 5 scripts
> don't have to do anything, and thus don't have any output.  When that
> happens, periodic outputs 'No output from the 5 files processed'.
> 
> Is there a way to make periodic not output anything so that I don't
> get an email from cron every 15 minutes?

Commenting out that line in /usr/sbin/periodic seems to be the way to
go.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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