From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.22]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C3meU-0002Sa-00 for ; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 22:21:11 -0400 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1C3meT-0006j4-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:21:09 -0700 Received: (qmail 19599 invoked by uid 1023); 5 Sep 2004 02:21:16 -0000 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:21:16 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040905022116.GB19501@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20040905021716.GA19501@romuald.net.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040905021716.GA19501@romuald.net.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc Subject: Re: cron question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:21:11 -0000 Actually, since you probably still want to see any error messages that fetchmail produces, just put >/dev/null at the end. Greg On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:17:16PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Scott, > > why are you using cron to run fetchmail, and not just putting > fetchmail into daemon mode? > > To get rid of the mails from cron, put > > >/dev/null 2>&1 > > at the end of the line in your crontab that runs fetchmail. Hth. > > Greg > > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org