[Sheflug] Quiet Cron?

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

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

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

Right.  So you do it line by line in the crontab.  Each job has its
own redirection.

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

Because it's figured out that all of the other Windose baoxes on the
LAN have turned into Linux boxes and it knows it's next?  Or maybe
it's trembling with eagerness for the operation?


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