[nmglug] cron e-mail /dev/null

[Bin Hu]

I guess you can put a script under your home directory, say
~/bin/myscript.py, and make a user cron entry instead.

By the way, I am interested in what you want to do with the script. It
sounds like a surveillance program :-).

Regards,
Bin

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:09 AM, a <a at kaluta.us> wrote:
> Ed:
> Thank you for the well thought out suggestion,I am pretty new to this
> stuff, please forgive any inaccuracies in the following:
> I have been given a limited server account on which to doodle,I do not
> have access to any bin directories.however,I will use your suggestion to
> familiarize myself with the various components of your your informative
> directive. Best,Anthony
>
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 06:40 -0700, Ed Santiago wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:52:01 -0700, a wrote:
>> >When there is "*.jpg" content the cronjob successfully reads:
>> >"/home/kaluta/kaluta.us/jerry-camera/*.jpg".
>> >
>> >When there is not "*.jpg" content (i.e. camera off). I am e-mailed the
>> >following message hourly by cron:
>> >"/usr/bin/find: /home/kaluta/kaluta.us/jerry-camera/*.jpg: No such file"
>> >or directory.
>> >
>> >Can anyone suggest a method of avoiding the "superfluous" hourly e-mail.
>> >tnx, Anthony
>>
>>  * Snip at cut-here.
>>  * Save into a file named "camera-clean" (or whatever you like),
>>    in a bin directory of your choosing.
>>  * Make it executable [ chmod 755 /my/bin/camera-clean ]
>>  * Put it into source control (git, hg, even RCS).
>>  * Fix the FIXMEs (you'll thank yourself later).
>>  * Change your cron rule to:
>>
>>    - ...* * [complex find command]
>>    + ...* * /my/bin/camera-clean
>>
>> Writing a short script may seem like overkill.  It's not.
>> Complex cron entries are unmaintainable.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Ed
>>
>> ---------------cut--here--------------------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #
>> # camera-clean - clean up blah blah blah FIXME
>> #
>> # $Id$
>> #
>>
>> # Directory containing images.  jpg files are deposited here by FIXME.
>> cd /home/kaluta/kaluta.us/jerry-camera || exit 1
>>
>> # Look for jpg files older than 1 day, and silently delete them.
>> # Only look in current directory (-maxdepth), not in subdirectories.
>> find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.jpg' -mtime +1 -print0 | \
>>      xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm -f
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