Oops... Sent to the wrong List... Apologies > -----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 > > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list > -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
