[Sheflug] Quiet Cron?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:

    Barrie> ow do I make Cron shutup?

If you know you never want to hear from that job, add `>/dev/null
2>&1' (order matters) to the command line (cron uses a shell, so
redirection works).

If there are regular messages you don't want to hear, but think the
job might produce errors you _should_ hear about, use `2>&1 | grep -v
$expression_to_catch_uninteresting_text' (the -v says output
non-matchs, suppress matches).

You can probably complete shut up cron, but that's not a good idea.
You will regret it someday.

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