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From: aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss)
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Subject: Re: Cron problems
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Date: 27 Feb 91 15:30:04 GMT
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In article <998@pallas.athenanet.com> kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) writes:

>once an hour is the recommendation.  I also forgot to mention that this
>will make a fat cron log (if it is enabled).  And my original post would
>make it REAL fat.  Thanks for the correction.

If you don't want a cron log file, just delete it.  Cron does not create
the log file, just writes to it if it is there.