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Old 08-24-2008
Cron jobs redirecting output
Hi guys with regards to Cron jobs if for example i run a script and it produces output to the admin mail how could i stop it from doing that at script level and redirrect it to a file so that admin does not have all these emails about jobs done correctly.
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Old 08-24-2008
Redirect stdout and stderr to your file, something like:

Code:
10 * * * * your_script > log_file 2>&1

See crontab(5) for details and sh(1) for how to redirect the file descriptors.

Regards
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Old 08-24-2008
is there a way of doing it in the actual bash script that im running once a month?

like a verbose command or something similar?
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Old 08-24-2008
To redirect the stdout and stderr to a file in your script, place this line above the first command in your script:

exec 1> log_file 2>&1

Regards
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Old 08-24-2008
ohhh oko ill give it a try
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