On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 04:38:28AM +0000, Craig Tinson wrote: > hey guys.. quick question.. thought I had this figured but i must be > missing something > > I have the following in /etc/crontab > > 0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /usr/share/toaster/mrtg/qmailmrtg.cfg > 2>&1 > /dev/null > > I was under the impression that the "2>&1 > /dev/null" would quit crond > sending root an email with the results of the cron job.. > > but I'm still getting mails every 5 mins.. how can I get it to just kill > the output? You need to switch the order of the redirection operators: ... >/dev/null 2>&1 Without going into too much detail, you need to redirect stderr to stdout AFTER you've already redirected stdout to a file (or a device in this case). -chris
