[mythtv-users] RE: 'mythfilldatabase --quiet' isn't very quiet

seth caver at verizon.net
Sat Oct 2 09:22:31 EDT 2004


>> -----Original Message----- 
>> ...pretty straight forward. even with the 'quiet' switch,
>> though, i recieve emails daily that document the normal
>> processes that transpire on a standard 'mythfilldatabase'
>> command. i'm curious as to weather there's an even quieter
>> switch i could be using to eliminate the feedback alltogether
>> unless there's warnings or errors. or perhaps i'm usign it
>
> On a related note, you should be able to silence it yourself by dumping 
> the
> output to /dev/null. That should stop the cron emails... Doesn't really
> answer your question about the "quiet" switch though.
>
> su - mythtv -c "/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --no-delete --quiet" > /dev/null

actually, this doesn't work.  i suppose i could redirect everything with 
'&>', but then i would miss any errors that occured during the (attempted) 
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