hi,

i know i should RTFM but it is easier to ask...
so, I have RH 9.0 on my brand new machine.
root always receives mail from cron dameon about some missing config
files. How can i fine tune cron not to send mails in each quarter of
hours? But once in an hour or so like.

br,

Gabor

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:59:07 GMT, g.un. wrote:
> hi,
>
> i know i should RTFM but it is easier to ask...

Other people's Free advice:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

> so, I have RH 9.0 on my brand new machine.
> root always receives mail from cron dameon about some missing config
> files.

I would fix the problem instead of trying to suppress the messages.

> How can i fine tune cron not to send mails in each quarter of
> hours? But once in an hour or so like.

You realy need to take time to understand what is going on when.

man cron
man crontab
man 5 crontab

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In comp.os.linux.setup g.un. <pinin@freemail.hu> suggested:
> hi,

> i know i should RTFM but it is easier to ask...

Ah well and what if everyone thinks like that, do you expect the
few regulars here to be able to answer the massive amount of
questions?

> so, I have RH 9.0 on my brand new machine.

Already outdated, try Fedora if you like RH or another recent
distro.

> root always receives mail from cron dameon about some missing config
> files. How can i fine tune cron not to send mails in each quarter of
> hours? But once in an hour or so like.

Wouldn't it be better to fix your broken system then simply
dropping those mails? If you post one of those mails, we could
have a look and perhaps someone knows what to do, if you can't
figure it out.

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Thank you for you answers! I will RTFM. Unfortunately I can't change my
distro and I can't post here logs...
Thanks anyway!!!!

g.un

Ah, come on! Don't be disheartened!

Try googling the newsgroups ... Things are not that bad when it comes
to learning linux. Yes, RTFM is better but at the same time try
looking to the log it generates ... that is a starting point. See, the
log might say that some daemon(s) are missing a critical conf file,
maybe squid, dns, sendmail .... etc which in turn calls cron for
reporting to root.


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