No output from periodic

[Daniel Bye]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:09:24AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote:
> 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.

But it _is_ output - look for "processed" in /usr/sbin/periodic.  If none of
the scripts it spawns say anything, this is what you get back.

If you _really_ want to suppress this message, you will either need to edit
/usr/sbin/periodic so it doesn't say anything if none of its scripts say
anything, or set up a procmail (or similar) rule to filter out the noise.

Dan

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