using crontab to back up files

tomolesonjr · 04-27-2006, 04:46 PM

first off I'm just trying to get it to work.

http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html

provided some tips.

I'm creating a simple script to append to a text file to test whether it works.

call it hello. so in the hello.cron file I have: * * * * * /root/bin/hello.sh

I type crontab hello.cron.......all things ok. but every minute it gets something about mail in the spooler.

Thanks,
Tom

ataraxia · 04-27-2006, 06:15 PM

If a cron job produces output, it will mail it to you. If you don't want the mail, you need to make your script quiet. Maybe redirect it to /dev/null if all else fails:

Code:

* * * * * /root/bin/hello.sh 2>&1 > /dev/null