AIX

Can you share, what the actual output from the cron job looks like (what comes after the produced the following output:)?

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produced the following output:

/home/userid/userid/archive/filename.txt:     0.0% -- replaced with /home/userid/userid/archive/archive/filename.txt.gz


*************************************************
Cron: The previous message is the standard output
      and standard error of one of your cron commands.

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That is pretty much all it says for all of them. The mail is coming from root I believe, and it states above that the standard output and error is being displayed. I thought I was suppressing them by adding /dev/null/ or adding the -v or adding MAIL=

OK,
Let me ask you this, as root you are editing the crontab of other user? or you editing the crontab of root itself?
If your answer is former then I doubt the crontab will execute the script/command. If your answer is latter then, you should receive an email in root's inbox and NOT in other user's.

Hmmm, aixnj, the output you shared is exactly, what gzip prints when executed with the -v option. But a few days ago, you said, that you removed this option from the crontab.

It seems, your change is not in effect. Did you edit the crontab with crontab -e? This is necessary to inform cron, that the crontab has been changed and needs to be reread. When you "just edit" the crontab file, cron does not reread it and keeps executing the old entry.

The answer is neither. In my case this is another user on the box, and I'm editing that users crontab logged in as that other user, which we want to run it under that user's name of course. So really not using root here, but if you can see from some of the mail I put in this thread, to me at least, seems root is sending the mail about the other user's crontab jobs. We really dont need that.


Ah, guilty as charged. You were right, the change never took. I did user the crontab edit command to make changes. I even killed the cron process, even though I know it auto spawns. But now I triple checked and it seems to have taken my edit so I'll see how it runs tonight. Mind you I now have:

Added

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MAILTO=

Added

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>/dev/null

Removed

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-v

Just wanted to confirm that your suggestions worked. Thanks guys.

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edit by bakunin: I'm glad it worked. I set the threads title to SOLVED.