[fetchmail]supress errors in log

[Rob MacGregor]

On 10/11/05, Paul Goodyear <pgudge@gmail.com> wrote:
> -- /etc/crontab
> */1   *   *   *   *   user1   /usr/local/bin/fetchmail --silent --syslog
>
> when fetchmal runs all logs about "no emails on server", and all
> "Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain !=3D
> mail.myserver.net" are not sent to the user which is great.
>
> But when the internet dies, or not available the user is still swamped
> emails containing:
>
> "fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at <uid>"
>
> Can these be stopped also?

A few options:

* Try a longer interval - frankly 1 minute is overkill.

* Use daemon mode - it's there for a reason!

* Append ">/dev/null 2>/dev/null" (or ">/dev/null 2>&1") to direct all
output to /dev/null

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Rob MacGregor
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