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# 8  
Old 06-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by hasan.kamali
but still emails are being generated.
What contain these mails ?
Please post a sample including headers.
# 9  
Old 06-27-2013
Hi,

I have executed the code mentioned below:
crontab -l > /tmp/file
grep -v "/dev/null" -n /tmp/file > /tmp/noredirect

and found multiple entries in cron which do not end with '/dev/null'.

And here is the sample email generated by cron:

Your "cron" job on mercury2
/export/home/orbix2/medcamtel.ksh >> /export/home/orbix2/logs/medtel.log 2>>/export/home/orbix2/logs/medtel.log

produced the following output:

! could not obtain latest contract for PID 11571: No such process Thu Jun 27 09:09:00 2013
# 10  
Old 06-27-2013
Well, the cron record looks okay, but something inside the code must be writing to an output file descriptor other than &1 (Standard Output) or &2 (Standard Error)

Can you (without compromising yourself security-wise) post the script?


Robin
# 11  
Old 06-27-2013
yes robin i will definately do that but first let me put '/dev/null' at the end of each and every cron entry.
# 12  
Old 06-27-2013
Are you proposing to therefore stop writing your logs to /export/home/orbix2/logs/medtel.log (in this case)

The problem is output that is not being directed to a file gets sent as an e-mail. You might be losing valuable trace information if you just throw it all away, including whatever you are logging in /export/home/orbix2/logs/medtel.log so far.


Robin
# 13  
Old 06-27-2013
try enclosing the offending line and redirect its output to /dev/null ... this way you do not have to do anything with the scripts at all until you have enough time to do so ... btw, i shortened the original line n the sample as both your stdout and stderr are being redirected to the same file ...
Code:
(/export/home/orbix2/medcamtel.ksh >> /export/home/orbix2/logs/medtel.log 2>>&1) > /dev/null 2>&1

# 14  
Old 06-27-2013
The root cause is unlikely due to missing redirections. The error message sent is from cron itself, not the scripts.

What OS version are you running ? (cat /etc/release)
What user's crontab is affected ?
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