[SunHELP] Suppressing cron output.

[Will Mc Donald]

STDERR?

try 

/usr/local/bin/updatedb > /dev/null 2>&1 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Schumacher" <schu at schu.net>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] Suppressing cron output.


> Hello all,
> 
> Why do I keep getting cron email even after I directed output to
> /dev/null?
> 
> schu
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Your "cron" job on machinename
> /usr/local/bin/updatedb > /dev/null
> 
> produced the following output:
> 
> find: /proc/4978/fd/4: No such file or directory
> find: /proc/4978/fd/4: No such file or directory