Thanks Dave.

> Jim Streit writes:
>> Next question... how do I make sure that my cron job doesn't try to
>> send a message to root when it runs?
>
> Any output from cron is mailed to the owner of the cron job.  What you
> want to do is make sure there is no output.  Do this by redirecting the
> output:
>
> command > /dev/null
>
> The above redirects stdout (file descriptor 1) to /dev/null.  Many
> commands write error messages to stderr (fd 2).  If you also want to
> discard error messages, do this:
>
> command > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> The above makes stderr a copy of stdout.  You can also specifically
> redirect each descriptor:
>
> command > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>
> --
> David Phillips <david at acz.org>
> http://david.acz.org/
>
>
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