Re: [gentoo-user] Cron and disabling emails for one script only

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 03:22:18 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>>>> This seems to be working.  Since I added the null bit to the script
>>>> itself, it hasn't sent a email.  I don't know if it will if it fails
>>>> but I still have weekly backups as well.   
>>> If you only redirect stdout to /dev/null and leave stderr alone, you
>>> should still see errors. But a better option would be to have your
>>> script only send output when something goes wrong.
>> That sounds complicated.  I've never been good at what y'all call
>> scripting.  I'm just glad it does it for me so I don't forget. 
> Not really. ">/dev/null" redirects stdout to null. You added 2>&1, which
> redirects stderr to stdout, effectively throwing away any error messages.
> Post your backup script and we'll be able to help more.
>
>

I left the last bit off as well.  I just put in the null part.  I may do
something to force it to screw up, like umount the drive, and see what
it does.  To be honest tho, I just wanted the emails to stop for that
script.  I have other backups anyway, just not as frequent. 

Dale

:-)  :_)