ohh, now I get it

thanks

That makes it perfectly clear for me

thank you very much!

so i got feedback from some hackers last few days that my FreeBSD server is a fortress >:D

wsky: Nice!

thanks to the dev team brilliance :D

Anything can be broken, but sane defaults save face xD

I'm wondering, is it cron's default behavior to email error messages from jobs it runs? I have a bunch of junk in my mail because of it

Aye. You can turn it off for the entire crontab by making the MAILTO environment variable empty, or use shell redirection to send the output to a file or /dev/null

ah, I see. they seem like normal warnings, and the cron job is functioning as its supposed to. just hate all that junk in my mail. will do that

A fancier way of dealing with it is provided by a script called 'cronic' - it's in pkg - which collects output but only emits it if the program exits with an error code

i should export /etc/periodic, not sure what i want it for, but

mquin: thats pretty interesting, ill look into that. thanks