topic Re: cron output question in Operating System - HP-UX

cron output question

iranzo — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 06:38:49 GMT

Hello,

Here is a part of my cron

00,15,30,45 * * * * /users/killproc

The script is ok
But when it's start the standard output go to root's mail .(lot of messages !!)

Start of script:
# Killproc
. /users/explara/env/exploit.env #env exploit
. /users/explara/env/cmxAP.env # env cimix
#
FOUT=/users/explara/log/killproc.log
exec 1>$FOUT 2>&1
#
...

Thanks.

Re: cron output question

Peter Kloetgen — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 06:47:17 GMT

Hi Malosse,

the standard output of cron is the mail account of the user, who started the job. If you don't want this, you have to redirect your output, for example into a logfile:

00,15 * * * * /usr/killproc > /path_to_logfile/logfile 2>/path_to_errorfile/errorlogfile

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

Re: cron output question

Jdamian — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 06:48:04 GMT

You must to redirect the output of the script in crontab.
Otherwise, the standard output and error output is e-mailed to user.

Re: cron output question

Steven Sim Kok Leong — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 06:52:36 GMT

Hi,

If you don't want the output, redirect the STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null in your cron job:

00,15,30,45 * * * * /users/killproc >/dev/null 2>&1

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong