On 1/17/06, BSD Questions user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks everyone for the help. For the archive: > I went to /usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpdate and edited ntpdate.c. I searched for > 'host found' and changed the stderror to stdout. I then went to > /usr/src/usr.sbin/ntp and performed a make install clean. Problem solved; > the new 'host found' messages now go to stdout, just like all the other > messages, so I can dump them to /dev/null, but 'host not found' error > messages still show up as mail to root. > > Brad
As cron generally uses /bin/sh as the shell (set near the top of /etc/crontab) you could have used /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s pool.ntp.org 2>/dev/null instead of /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s pool.ntp.org >/dev/null and I believe you could also extend it to 2>/dev/null > /dev/null _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"