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From: thomasbe@uio.no (Thomas Berge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do I stop crond from mailing?
Date: 29 Apr 1994 15:09:43 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo
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Max Bell (mbell@teleport.com) wrote:
> IE: If you have "0 2 * * * /usr/adm/cleanup", change it to:
> "0 2 * * * /usr/adm/cleanup > /dev/null 2>&1". I am assuming that crond uses
> the Borne shell to execute crontab entries. If it uses something else, use
> that shell's redirection syntax instead (for csh it would be ">& /dev/null").
Ahhhh... Now that worked! Thanks!
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