[ale] cron mail, how to STOP it.

Cliff Free erudite.hacker at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 11:04:26 EDT 2005


What about doing " blahblah > /dev/null 2>&1" ?

On 10/16/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
>
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Sun October 16 2005 6:16 am, Jim Lynch wrote:
> >
> >>>10 3,6,9,12,15,18 * * * /home/pbc/bin/yosucker >/dev/null
> >>>2</dev/null
> >>
> >>Little bit of a typo here. The "2</dev/null" should be
> >>"2>/dev/null" perhaps. ;)
> >
> > you know, I looked at that and thought to myself.... it MUST be a
> > typo :)
> > but it was an interesting thread.. so many ways to do it!
> > and thanks to everyone who answered!!
> >
>
> well 2</dev/null is a valid syntax, but it certainly won't do we we were
> trying to accomplish. I'm not sure when you would want to open
> /dev/null and write it to stderr. :)
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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