Quieten down the Lynx cron

[myqee]

I've got the cron working on my setup using the lynx command:

lynx --source "http://xxxxxxxxx.com/xxxxxxxx/index.php/cron"

However, I'm getting the html source sent to the specified cron job email address every fifteen minutes. (I've set up the cron to run every 15 mins).

Is there anyway to stop these emails with a certain lynx parameter or something... and have only errors sent to the cron job email instead?

Thanks,
Mike

[neenach2002]

There is always output - even when it doesn't fetch any emails from the inbox, and I'm unaware of any way to suppress output.

[myqee]

Thanks for the info,... what do people normally do to stop the endless emails? ...put an incorrect one in to the cpanel cron manager?

Thanks

[myqee]

Ok, I've given up trying to get lynx to stop sending the messages. I'm now using wget:

wget -O - --quiet "http://xxxxxxx.com/xxxxx/index.php/cron"

I was hoping the --quiet parameter would stop the emails but it doesn't.

Does wget have a parameter to stop the emails (whilst leaving error messages to get through)?

Thanks in advance.

[neenach2002]

How about removing your email address from the cron setup?

[myqee]

Will that not prevent me from being able to receive error emails though?

[jstanden]

Hey guys,

The smart thing to do in this situation is to redirect any cron output to /dev/null.

You do that like this:

*/1 * * * * lynx --blah >/dev/null 2>&1


Those bold parts mean:


>/dev/null (redirect any screen output to null -- silently ignore/destroy it)
2>&1 (combine STDERR and STDOUT for the redirect so you get no screen output from either pipe. In some situations you'd want to only suppress output and still be emailed explicit errors from a shell script, so you'd leave this part off).

[jstanden]

I added this to the KB as well:
http://www.cerberusweb.com/kb/article/000033