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From: babucher@mtu.edu (Brian A. Bucher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Cron Daemon's mails
Date: 27 Jun 1995 20:26:45 GMT
Organization: Michigan Technological University
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I have a script in root's crontab that kills idle processes.
Sometimes it kills a process that was killed when the script
killed it's parent (follow me so far?).
Cron then emails root that it couldn't kill the process that had already
exited.
How do I stop the cron from emailing about it? redirection won't work
because it deals with only stdout and stderr (right?).

Thanks,
Boo