Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 12:43:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> 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. > cron only sends an email if the job produces any output. If the script > follows the *nix principle of succeed quietly, fail noisily, you should > only get emails when things go wrong. However without seeing your > mail-backup script, it is hard to say what needs to change. > > The "|| true " part means this cron task will always return success, even > if the script fails, which possibly is not what you want. > >
My script, if one wants to call it that, just has rsync commands in it. It doesn't get fancy. I literally copy the commands from Konsole and paste them in my text file. I make it executable and that's my script. I wouldn't even think it rises to a bash thing even tho it is at the top, cron likes it that way. For years, I been doing it manually. I just wanted to automate the thing a bit. I hope I don't have to learn bash to do this. I'd delete the cron job and just go back to doing it manually. lol Dale :-) :-)
