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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cais.com!news!khera From: khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: /etc/crontab mails me every 15 minutes! Date: 29 Jun 1995 23:27:14 GMT Organization: Khera Communications, Inc., Rockville, MD Lines: 19 Message-ID: <KHERA.95Jun29192714@kci.kciLink.com> References: <3sug23$grn@news.computek.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kci.kcilink.com To: sysadmin@ns1.koyote.com In-reply-to: sysadmin@ns1.koyote.com's message of 29 Jun 1995 15:15:15 GMT >>>>> "s" == sysadmin <sysadmin@ns1.koyote.com> writes: s> I have the following line in my /etc/crontab : s> 0,15,30,45 * * * * root /usr/sbin/pop.killer.sh | tee -a /var/log/popkill.out s> my problem is that every 15 minutes this stupid thing emails me telling me output of pop.killer.sh You asked it to. If you don't want email, make sure your program produces no output to stdout or stderr. Change your pipe to tee to be a simple redirect to append to the file: pop.killer.sh >> /var/log/popkill.out should do it. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-309-0969 PGP/RIPEM/MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/