* cron and annoyances @ Tyler Littlefield ` Chuck Hallenbeck ` Kerry Hoath 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Tyler Littlefield @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Hello list, I was wondering if anyone had a fix for this. I get tons of mail from cron a day, in my local mailbox, which is rather annoying, I think it goes to two accounts of mine on the system, and it happens every 15 mins or so. Is there a way I can silence this? Thanks, Tyler Littlefield email: tyler@tysdomain.com web: tysdomain-com Visit for quality software and web design. skype: st8amnd2005 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: cron and annoyances cron and annoyances Tyler Littlefield @ ` Chuck Hallenbeck ` Jayson Smith ` Kerry Hoath 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Chuck Hallenbeck @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Tyler, Look in /etc/crontab and find out what application is run every 15 minutes to produce the mail you are getting. Redirect the output of that application to /dev/null by adding the necessary redirection information to the line that runs the application. Better yet, read the mail you are being sent to learn what the error is that you are being told about, and fix it. Chuck On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:45:24AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: > Hello list, > I was wondering if anyone had a fix for this. > I get tons of mail from cron a day, in my local mailbox, which is rather > annoying, > I think it goes to two accounts of mine on the system, and it happens > every 15 mins or so. > Is there a way I can silence this? > > > Thanks, > Tyler Littlefield > email: tyler@tysdomain.com > web: tysdomain-com > Visit for quality software and web design. > skype: st8amnd2005 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (12% of Full) My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net -- my telephone: 1-518-334-9022. -------- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: cron and annoyances ` Chuck Hallenbeck @ ` Jayson Smith ` Tyler Littlefield ` Alex Snow 0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Jayson Smith @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Hi, Chuck said just about what I was going to say here. Try redirecting the output of the commands to /dev/null. However, some commands which are normally silent will produce output if an error occurs, even if they've been redirected to /dev/null. If you still get the messages, actually read one to find out what error is occurring, and fix it. Jayson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@ftml.net> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 1:04 PM Subject: Re: cron and annoyances > Tyler, > > Look in /etc/crontab and find out what application is run every 15 > minutes to produce the mail you are getting. Redirect the output of > that application to /dev/null by adding the necessary redirection > information to the line that runs the application. > > Better yet, read the mail you are being sent to learn what the error is > that you are being told about, and fix it. > > Chuck > > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:45:24AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> Hello list, >> I was wondering if anyone had a fix for this. >> I get tons of mail from cron a day, in my local mailbox, which is rather >> annoying, >> I think it goes to two accounts of mine on the system, and it happens >> every 15 mins or so. >> Is there a way I can silence this? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Tyler Littlefield >> email: tyler@tysdomain.com >> web: tysdomain-com >> Visit for quality software and web design. >> skype: st8amnd2005 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (12% of Full) > > My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net -- my telephone: 1-518-334-9022. > -------- > It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: cron and annoyances ` Jayson Smith @ ` Tyler Littlefield ` Alex Snow 1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Tyler Littlefield @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. it was just the output from the commands I was getting. /dev/null worked, thanks. didn't think of that. :) Thanks, Tyler Littlefield email: tyler@tysdomain.com web: tysdomain-com Visit for quality software and web design. skype: st8amnd2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayson Smith" <jaybird@bluegrasspals.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 11:14 AM Subject: Re: cron and annoyances > Hi, > > Chuck said just about what I was going to say here. Try redirecting > the output of the commands to /dev/null. However, some commands which are > normally silent will produce output if an error occurs, even if they've > been redirected to /dev/null. If you still get the messages, actually read > one to find out what error is occurring, and fix it. > Jayson > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@ftml.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 1:04 PM > Subject: Re: cron and annoyances > > >> Tyler, >> >> Look in /etc/crontab and find out what application is run every 15 >> minutes to produce the mail you are getting. Redirect the output of >> that application to /dev/null by adding the necessary redirection >> information to the line that runs the application. >> >> Better yet, read the mail you are being sent to learn what the error is >> that you are being told about, and fix it. >> >> Chuck >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:45:24AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >>> Hello list, >>> I was wondering if anyone had a fix for this. >>> I get tons of mail from cron a day, in my local mailbox, which is rather >>> annoying, >>> I think it goes to two accounts of mine on the system, and it happens >>> every 15 mins or so. >>> Is there a way I can silence this? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Tyler Littlefield >>> email: tyler@tysdomain.com >>> web: tysdomain-com >>> Visit for quality software and web design. >>> skype: st8amnd2005 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> -- >> The Moon is Waxing Crescent (12% of Full) >> >> My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net -- my telephone: 1-518-334-9022. >> -------- >> It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever >> final. >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: cron and annoyances ` Jayson Smith ` Tyler Littlefield @ ` Alex Snow 1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Alex Snow @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. If you also make sure that stderr is redirected, this should completely silence even errors. On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:14:51PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Chuck said just about what I was going to say here. Try redirecting the > output of the commands to /dev/null. However, some commands which are > normally silent will produce output if an error occurs, even if they've > been redirected to /dev/null. If you still get the messages, actually read > one to find out what error is occurring, and fix it. > Jayson > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@ftml.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 1:04 PM > Subject: Re: cron and annoyances > > > >Tyler, > > > >Look in /etc/crontab and find out what application is run every 15 > >minutes to produce the mail you are getting. Redirect the output of > >that application to /dev/null by adding the necessary redirection > >information to the line that runs the application. > > > >Better yet, read the mail you are being sent to learn what the error is > >that you are being told about, and fix it. > > > >Chuck > > > > > >On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:45:24AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote: > >>Hello list, > >>I was wondering if anyone had a fix for this. > >>I get tons of mail from cron a day, in my local mailbox, which is rather > >>annoying, > >>I think it goes to two accounts of mine on the system, and it happens > >>every 15 mins or so. > >>Is there a way I can silence this? > >> > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Tyler Littlefield > >>email: tyler@tysdomain.com > >>web: tysdomain-com > >>Visit for quality software and web design. > >>skype: st8amnd2005 > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Speakup mailing list > >>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >-- > >The Moon is Waxing Crescent (12% of Full) > > > >My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net -- my telephone: 1-518-334-9022. > > -------- > >It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. -- Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, on X interfaces ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: cron and annoyances cron and annoyances Tyler Littlefield ` Chuck Hallenbeck @ ` Kerry Hoath 1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Kerry Hoath @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Find out what cron jobs are generating the mail then figure out why. Solve the problems and the mail will stop. Otherwise edit the scripts that are running every 15 minutes and either unset MAILTO at the top of the script or redirect the output of the command that generates output to /dev/null with >/dev/null 2>&1 be warned, if you blackhole the output of a command that has an error condition and you haven't solved the underlying problem you may get yourself into trouble. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:45 AM Subject: cron and annoyances > Hello list, > I was wondering if anyone had a fix for this. > I get tons of mail from cron a day, in my local mailbox, which is rather > annoying, > I think it goes to two accounts of mine on the system, and it happens > every 15 mins or so. > Is there a way I can silence this? > > > Thanks, > Tyler Littlefield > email: tyler@tysdomain.com > web: tysdomain-com > Visit for quality software and web design. > skype: st8amnd2005 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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