[Sheflug] Quiet Cron?

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
 > >>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:
 > 
 >     Barrie> How 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).

 I know about the basic > /dev/null to bin things, but I don't want it
doing that with my actual mail if I run getmail from a crontab - just
the output :-)

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

 No doubt. It'll probably the one thing that has run perfectly for a
year that I decide I'm not interested in that will decide to crash the
machine or hack into NASA or something spontaneously.

Nope, scratch that - it's only a trick that Windoze does.

Has anyone actually figured out why a Windoze machine that has happily
run for a couple of weeks suddenly goes postal?

Cheers.

Baz.

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