Yes...it's cron. To stop it from mailing you, add this to the end of the line in root's crontab:
> /dev/null 2>&1 On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Andy wrote: > > I created a backup script that copies our NT Server data drive to our > Redhat box running samba. All works fine except my root email account > gets a 1.2 MB email sent to it every night. This will hog disk space. > This is the beginning of the email: > Subject: Cron <root@yamaha> /root/backupscript > Message part: > Unknown parameter encountered: "oplock wait break time" > Ignoring unknown parameter "oplock wait break time" > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > mnt/ > <BIG SNIP> > > This is the script: > [root@yamaha root]# cat backupscript > #!/bin/bash > mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=admin //ntserver/D$ /mnt > ( tar cf - /mnt ) | ( cd /usr/local/samba/lib/back ; tar xvpf - ) > umount /mnt > [root@yamaha root]# > > How do I tell cron NOT to send me a summary? (if that is what it is doing) > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
