On 12/4/05, Sam Drinkard <sam at 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