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

[John Covici]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:43:31 -0400,
Dale wrote:
>
> 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.

I think you have to do it in your actual backup script or put the
whole thing in the hourly directory putting >/dev/null at the end of
each rsync command, but leaving off the 2>&1, so you will get error
messages.

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