crontab

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

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.