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From: claris!skip@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Schipper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: cron in sunos 4.0
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Date: 3 Apr 89 17:57:31 GMT
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arnold@emoryu2.cc.emory.edu (Arnold D. Robbins) writes:
>Is there anyone else out there who is sick of getting umpteen messages a
>day from cron?  Is there any way to shut the d*mn program up?

Just pipe the output from your cron jobs to /dev/null, like this:

	0 15 * * * /etc/dosomething > /dev/null

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