Howdy, I set up a hard drive to backup my emails, world file, /etc and a couple other things. I been doing it manually but finally set up a cron job to run it automatically. I call it a script but some may laugh at me calling it that. Anyway, I got cron to run it just fine. It runs and copies it over just like it should. I set it to do that each hour. Thing is, it sends a email every time it does it. I don't mind a email if there is a error but don't want one if it runs successfully. This is the cron file I set up. It's placed in the hourly directory.
#!/bin/bash /root/mail-backup > /dev/null 2>&1 || true # >/dev/null 2>&1 I got a lot of hits doing a google search and the only thing I see is to direct it to /dev/null. From examples I've seen, this should work. I then ran across the one currently up there with true in it. I don't understand that but tried it anyway. It still sends emails. I also tried the one commented out below that as well. Still emails. Keep in mind, I do not want to disable ALL emails, just this one script. How does one disable emails for this one cron job? Do I have a typo or putting it in wrong place maybe? Everything I found shows this should work but obviously I'm doing something wrong. Again, error emails are fine. I don't want successful runs tho. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-)
