error to null in cron jobs

Jason Joines joines
Mon May 17 11:53:44 PDT 2004


Michael Hipp wrote:
> Jason Joines wrote:
> 
>>   When I do the same thing in a script via cron, I get the error in 
>> the ouput even with 2>/dev/null.
> 
> 
> I generally use &> /dev/null to keep things quiet.
> 
> You can also put that at the end of the line in /etc/crontab to quiet 
> the whole cron job.
> 
> Michael
> 

   I tried the &>/dev/null but that gets rid of the non-error output as 
well.  I want that ouput.

Jason
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