Can't redirect cron output

Dustin Kirkland dustin.kirkland at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 20:34:14 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> This worked fine on all my systems but stopped at Gutsy. Hardy and Intrepid
> both have the problem also: cron output can't be redirected.
>
> Here's what used to work:
>
>   # Fetch mail for michael
>   */10 02-23   * * *   michael   fetchmail &> /dev/null

Try using:
fetchmail >/dev/null 2>&1

:-Dustin




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