> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Sep 3 11:39:54 2011 > Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:39:44 -0600 > To: questi...@freebsd.org > From: Brett Glass <br...@lariat.net> > Cc: > Subject: "at" command and mail > > I'm setting up a FreeBSD appliance that won't be running a mail > daemon. I'd like the at(8) command to be there for scheduling of > commands, but do not see any way to prevent it from trying to send > mail after it executes a command. (There's not even a command line > option that says "do not mail," or at least I can't find one.) Am I > missing something, or does at(8) always expect to be able to send > mail? If so, would it be worth implementing an atrun.conf > configuration file that makes it optional and possibly sets other > defaults for at(8)?
Is 'atrun' actually sending the mails or is 'cron' doing it? 'atrun' is invoked by 'cron', from a specification in the system crontab file. Cron emails *whenever* a cron-scheduled job produces stdout or stderr output. Thus, by modifying the atrun line in crontab, to redirect both stdout and stderr to /dev/null, you should prvent any 'mailing'. You could, in theory, have the crontab line _append_ output to a filename based on a timestamp, however, that intermixes output from all users. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
