[CentOS] Cron

Rich Huff rich at richhuff.com
Sun Dec 4 15:00:13 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 02:48 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote:
> I have several crontabs running at various times of the day and night.
> All generate copious output.  All the jobs produce copious output, and
> some of them I need to see, while others are 's are just a pain in the
> butt to have t look at.     is there some method I can use to
> selectively monitor cron's output of the one's I want to, while
> ignoring the others?  Thanks...

I append the following to the end of the crontab command for any jobs
that I do NOT want to see the output from:

 >/dev/null 2>&1

It sends all stdout output and stderr output to the bit bucket...

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