No output from periodic

[Elliot Finley]

I really appreciate all the comments, but this isn't quite what I'm after.

I _want_ cron to email me when there _is_ output.
But I _don't want_ an email when there _isn't_ output.

Anyone know how to accomplish this?

Elliot

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Elsner" <peter at servplex.com>
To: "Elliot Finley" <efinleywork at efinley.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: No output from periodic


> What you are seeing is an error condition...
> You should be able to put a redirect into crontab...
>
> Here's an example of one of my entries...
> It runs every 5 minutes, the dyndnss.pl script and sends
> output to /tmp/dyndnss.out AND any error messages (that's the 2>)
> to /tmp/dyndnss.err
>
> This works for me and I don't see any error messages.
> In the actual script, if something goes wrong, I have it email me.
> So I still get notified if the script fails, but I don't get any warnings
> from CRON.
>
> Hope that works.
>
> Peter
>
>
> */5   *  *  *  *  /cgi/dyndnss.pl >/tmp/dyndnss.out 2>/tmp/dyndnss.err
>
>
>
> At 09:41 AM 7/8/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >Yeah, I tried that...  Now I just get a blank email from cron. :)
> >
> >Anyone know how to make cron not send an email when there's no output?
> >
> >Elliot
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
> >To: "Elliot Finley" <elliot at etv.net>
> >Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:31 AM
> >Subject: Re: No output from periodic
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan Nelson
> > > dnelson at allantgroup.com
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