On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Adrian Rollett wrote:

> Just a side note:
> 
> I tried that, and unless someone knows how to fix that problem, cron
> mailed root every time it did it, which got to be tiresome for me. What I
> ended up doing is writing a very quick perl script of the form

Cron automatically mails root if there's any output to stdout or stderr
from the program (I think that's right).  To solve this, try tacking on
"2>&1 >/dev/null" (w/o the quotes) onto the end of the command.  If you
want to actually keep the output, replace /dev/null with a filename.


David

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