On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:20:20PM +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I made a monitor from my machine (CentOS 4.5) to do an http to a
> machine
> retrieve some info to see if a process is running (on this remote
> machine I have
> a task running so it is easy to get the info from my machine).
> If I cannot access the remote machine, my machine sends mail to me and
> a couple
> other people saying the machine is unreachable. My cronjob runs every
> 5 minutes.
> Juts occured to me now though that if our network goes down, my
> machine will be
> sending mail every 5 minutes saying the machine is unreachable. These
> messages
> will get stored on my machine and all get sent when it comes up.
> I am wondering whether someone knows how to cancel mail that is queued
> on a machine, so it
> doesn't all get sent out. I do have root access.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply stop cron sending the mail, hang the
follwoing on the end of the cron command:-
>/dev/null 2>&1
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Chris Green
