Howdy,
I set up a hard drive to backup my emails, world file, /etc and a couple
other things. I been doing it manually but finally set up a cron job to
run it automatically. I call it a script but some may laugh at me
calling it that. Anyway, I got cron to run it just fine. It runs and
copies it over just like it should. I set it to do that each hour.
Thing is, it sends a email every time it does it. I don't mind a email
if there is a error but don't want one if it runs successfully. This is
the cron file I set up. It's placed in the hourly directory.
#!/bin/bash
/root/mail-backup > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
# >/dev/null 2>&1
I got a lot of hits doing a google search and the only thing I see is to
direct it to /dev/null. From examples I've seen, this should work. I
then ran across the one currently up there with true in it. I don't
understand that but tried it anyway. It still sends emails. I also
tried the one commented out below that as well. Still emails.
Keep in mind, I do not want to disable ALL emails, just this one
script. How does one disable emails for this one cron job? Do I have a
typo or putting it in wrong place maybe? Everything I found shows this
should work but obviously I'm doing something wrong. Again, error
emails are fine. I don't want successful runs tho.
Thanks much.
Dale
:-) :-)
I set up a hard drive to backup my emails, world file, /etc and a couple
other things. I been doing it manually but finally set up a cron job to
run it automatically. I call it a script but some may laugh at me
calling it that. Anyway, I got cron to run it just fine. It runs and
copies it over just like it should. I set it to do that each hour.
Thing is, it sends a email every time it does it. I don't mind a email
if there is a error but don't want one if it runs successfully. This is
the cron file I set up. It's placed in the hourly directory.
#!/bin/bash
/root/mail-backup > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
# >/dev/null 2>&1
I got a lot of hits doing a google search and the only thing I see is to
direct it to /dev/null. From examples I've seen, this should work. I
then ran across the one currently up there with true in it. I don't
understand that but tried it anyway. It still sends emails. I also
tried the one commented out below that as well. Still emails.
Keep in mind, I do not want to disable ALL emails, just this one
script. How does one disable emails for this one cron job? Do I have a
typo or putting it in wrong place maybe? Everything I found shows this
should work but obviously I'm doing something wrong. Again, error
emails are fine. I don't want successful runs tho.
Thanks much.
Dale
:-) :-)