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

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 18:51:56 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>> 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. 

Dale

:-)  :-)