error to null in cron jobs

[Tim Wunder]

On 9/16/2003 12:23 PM, someone claiming to be Jason Joines wrote:

> 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.
> 

The 2>/dev/null directive in the cron job sends the error output of the 
cron job to /dev/null, you want the error output of the script to go to 
/dev/null. Not sure how exaclty to do that, but perhaps by entering 
'<scriptname> 2>dev/null' as the command to execute in the cron job? 
Either that, or write a wrapper script to call your script with the 
command parameters.

HTH,
Tim