RE: [Oops - wrong list] Output of Cron Clogging up my inbox.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ow Mun Heng 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:51 PM
> To: Fedora-Legacy-List (E-mail)
> Subject: Output of Cron Clogging up my inbox.
> 
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> 	I have a cron job made for running mrtg on my adsl connection 
> at an interval of 1 minute apart. However, my ADSL conn is
> not 24/7 turned on. So.. during the times when my PC is on, 
> and the ASDL
> isn't, cron still continues to run and since it can't find the ppp0
> connection,
> it'll output the error at a rate of 1 email per minute and I end up 
> with a clogged inbox.
> 
> cron 
> 0-59/1 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
> 
> I know I should add a /dev/null somewhere, I tried
> 
> 0-59/1 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg > /dev/null
> 
> 0-59/1 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg 2 >&1 > /dev/null
> 
> Both does not work.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
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