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Article #11898Re: cron in sunos 4.0
From: John Arisco
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 08:24
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 08:24
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> Is there any way to shut the d*mn program up ? > To take a potshot, what ever happened to the Unix philosophy that > said programs should NEVER be needlessly chatty? Actually, this is a rather nice feature of 4.0. It does not make sense for a cron job to produce any output, so 4.0 allows for this to be handled as a special case, and mails the output to you. To shut the noise up, just make sure that nothing in your crontab produces any output. We found the big offender to be "find" with a path argument of /. Note that /usr/lib/find/updatedb does one of these. Just prepend " >/dev/null 2>&1" to these lines in your crontab. I did not like 4.0 cron at first, but now I really appreciate it. I especially like the idea of private crontabs for each user and the crontab(1) command to manipulate them. John Arisco, MCC CAD Program | ARPA: arisco@mcc.com | Phone: [512] 338-3576 Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720 | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!arisco
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: arisco%cadillac.cad.mcc.com@mcc.com (John Arisco) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: cron in sunos 4.0 Keywords: Software Message-ID: <8903212134.AA13565@cadillac.cad.mcc.com> Date: 4 Apr 89 08:24:51 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 15:34:52 CST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 223, message 2 of 15