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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jim Streit Partner & Co-Founder NorthLANs Alliance, LLC JimStreit at northlans.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list