On 12/4/05, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net 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...
Change the output of what you're running with redirects. Output the stuff you don't care about to /dev/null and output the stuff you want to an email or text file. The advanced bash scripting guide is good for stuff like this. See http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/ioredirintro.html for details.
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center