Re: howto disable cron output
| From: | Michael Sims | Date: | Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:54:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: howto disable cron output | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:42:17 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>i wrote an ecard script and added 'send at a future date' feature.
>this feature is implemented via cron that runs daily at 1200 hours
>
>$> crontab -l looks like:
>00 00 * * * wget http://ecard.domain.com/futuresend.php
>2&1> /dev/null
>
>it works great but everyday there will be a file being written to my ecard
>directory.
[...]
Two solutions:
(1) Use lynx (or links) instead of wget, with the -dump option.
(2) Otherwise, use the wget's -O option with a dash to get it to
output it's file to STDOUT, which you are trashing anyway:
wget -O - http://ecard.domain.com/futuresend.php >
/dev/null 2>&1