h3x.no » stderr http://h3x.no Tor Henning Ueland`s thoughts about technology and other stuff Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:20:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Cron commands not working when outputting to stderr(2>&1) http://h3x.no/2009/05/07/cron-commands-not-working-when-outputing-to-stderr http://h3x.no/2009/05/07/cron-commands-not-working-when-outputing-to-stderr#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 11:17:29 +0000 Tor Henning Ueland http://www.h3x.no/?p=44 The error:

username@host:/home/foo> fetchmail -f /opt/rt-fetchmail/fetchmail 2>&1 /dev/null
Enter password for username@/dev/null:

Solution: Change the cron entry / command to the following:

fetchmail -f /opt/rt-fetchmail/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1

This will stop -all- output from appearing.

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