how to silence script output (so I don't get so many cron logs)?

BrianK · 03-01-2005, 01:38 PM

I have a script that launches a background process (using the '&'). When it does, it returns the pid, which then shows up in my cron log - every minute of every day it's doing any work.

Is there a way to stop it from returning the pid when I launch the background process?

FYI:, I load the command string into a variable & launch like so:

Code:

exec $COMMAND &

This is a tcsh script, but I could switch to bash if the answer lies there.

sirclif · 03-01-2005, 01:46 PM

just a shot in the dark, but would dirty fix be to set some dummy variable to the command.

x = exec $COMMAND &

would this then set x to the pid, and you could just dump it from there?

BrianK · 03-01-2005, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sirclif
just a shot in the dark, but would dirty fix be to set some dummy variable to the command.

x = exec $COMMAND &

ugly, but it works.

Thanks!