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Re: gnus-agent-fetch in batch mode in a cron job
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W. Greenhouse |
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Re: gnus-agent-fetch in batch mode in a cron job |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:39:01 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Julien,
Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
> The subject says it all. I'm fetching news through emacs in batch mode
> in a cron job but I can't figure out how to get the possible errors
> through the mails sent by cron.
>
> In batch mode emacs output everything that should go to the *Messages*
> buffer to stderr so cron sends an email each time the job is run, even
> without any error. I don't want to receive an email when there is no
> problem. Is there a way to get emacs to send only the error messages to
> stderrĀ ?
>
> Julien.
Yes, this should be a matter of shell redirection. Cron actually sends
both stdout and stderr to email, so if you only want stderr, then you
should redirect stdout to /dev/null. There isn't a -quiet option or
similar for Emacs in batch mode, so it's all up to the shell.
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