[ale] cron mail, how to STOP it.

Benjie Godfrey bgodfrey at layton-graphics.com
Thu Oct 20 15:03:02 EDT 2005


Paul Cartwright wrote:

>On Thu October 20 2005 11:04 am, Cliff Free wrote:
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>>What about doing " blahblah > /dev/null 2>&1" ?
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>THAT is the line I remember, but I just can't remember what it DOES...
>refresh my memory, ">/dev/nulll" does redirect standard output?
>or is that 2>&1..
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2>&1 redirects standard error to standard output in bash and I would 
guess other Bourne derived shells.

Benjie

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James B. Godfrey
Systems Administrator
Layton Graphics, Inc.
Marietta, Georgia, USA
www.layton-graphics.com




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