[Gllug] crontab

[Stig Brautaset]

On Jun 30 2003, Simon wrote:
> 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


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

under most recent shells[1], or:

4,14,24,34,44,54 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail 2>&1 > /dev/null 
4,14,24,34,44,54 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail 2> /dev/null > /dev/null

[1] certainly sh-type -- don't know for csh etc.

Hope that helps.


Stig
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