[Gllug] crontab

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh Simon Faulkner on Wednesday 02 July 2003 1:07 pm:
> I would like to stop crontab emailing me when it runs fetchmail.
>
> What syntax do I need?
>
> 4,14,24,34,44,54 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail 2&1> /dev/null
>
> Simon

4,14,24,34,44,54 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail >/dev/null

Would suffice; chances are you /do/ want stderr email, just no stdout email. 
You might also consider fetchmail as a daemon instead of in cron.
- -- 
Alistair
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