[mythtv-users] Can't send mythfilldatabase output to /dev/null
Stroller
Linux.Luser at myrealbox.com
Fri Dec 24 07:29:03 UTC 2004
On Dec 24, 2004, at 5:33 am, Phill Edwards wrote:
> When I run this command, all the output should go to /dev/null, I
> believe:
>
> $ mythfilldatabase --file 1 7 /home/mythtv/.xmltv/tvlistings.xml 2>&1
>> /dev/null
>
> However, the output goes to screen, or to mail when I run it from
> cron...
It's been a while since I looked at the syntax for this sorta stuff,
but in my cron I have a number of entries in the format:
/usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
which seem to do what you require.
Stroller.
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