Cron

[KingOfTheEmblem]

I run cron every 10mins due to a game but i get a bizzillion emails from the cron dump and if i blacklist the emails my cron doesnt go through but there are so many emails its not funny and it runs up my disk space. Why cant you block the emails and delete them.

 

[Slothie]

OR why can you google a bit more and learn how to redirect the cron output to /dev/null

 

[KingOfTheEmblem]

Why cant i google? I have no idea to be honest. But then again i could try but seeing as i was told this was a good question by a account manager and was told to post here i did.

 

[Russ]

Here.. i'll get this one...

Just add the following at the end of the cron command, before the semi-colon:

2>&1

This will redirect the stderr stream to the standard output, which in turn is redirected to /dev/null

 

[Slothie]

Actually as a cron, it should look something like this

*/6 * * * * /me/newb/somecommandwhichidontwantanemail >> /dev/null 2>&1

 

[Brandon]

I don't think you can edit that in cPanel though, I think it appended the e-mail at the end of each line.

 

[Russ]

Slothie, you're right. We were on irc and worked with it some after I posted.