[Perlfect-search] perlfect-search digest, Vol 1 #84 - 3 msgs (fwd)

[Taz Meister]

First of all, it doesn't appear that you are actually running a valid
cron file. This appears to be a shell script, but not a crontab entry.

A crontab file may look like:

-----------------------------------------------------

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
MAILTO=""
#
#minute hour    mday    month   wday    command
#

# Run the Indexer(every other day at 1:00AM)
0 1 1-31/2 * * /home/sites/site1/web/cgi-bin/perlfect/search/indexer.pl

-----------------------------------------------------

You have two choices.

1. You can tell cron not to email anything with this entry in your
crontab:

MAILTO=""

2. You can route the output to devnull by changing the entry to read:

0 1 1-31/2 * * /home/sites/site1/web/cgi-bin/perlfect/search/indexer.pl >
/dev/null

(or if you want nothing from the output in cases where some of the
crontab is emailed:)

0 1 1-31/2 * * /home/sites/site1/web/cgi-bin/perlfect/search/indexer.pl
2>&1 /dev/null


>Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:54:23 +0000
>To: perlfect-search@perlfect.com
>From: Alex Collins <a.collins@anglia.ac.uk>
>Subject: [Perlfect-search] ( Newbie ) Indexer Cron Job.
>Reply-To: perlfect-search@perlfect.com
>
>Hi there
>
>We have a rapidly developing web site, and to run the indexer manually
>is going to be a pain. I use a cron job to do it.
>
>The indexer runs fine but the noise in the logs is deafening. Cron also
>sends me a nice email telling me that it worked.
>
>How can I quieten things down a little.
>
>Perlfect search 3.09 
>Cobalt Raq 4 ( LINUX )
>Perl 5.005
>
>Cron file.
>
>#!/bin/sh
>/home/sites/site1/web/cgi-bin/perlfect/search/indexer.pl
>
>Thanks.
>-- 
>Alex Collins.     Rivermead Library IT Support Technician. 
>Rivermead Library.      Tel:01245 493131 X3722  Fax: X3145
>a.collins@anglia.ac.uk        http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk
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