About to create my first cron job. Wish me luck! 😅

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@_elena cronjobs are the best. all my bots depend on them! very reliable!

one thing that got me early on: any output from a script ran in a cronjob seems to be put in some log file. Left alone that log file can fill all the space in your system.

for reasons I don't fully understand this line fix that by stopping the logging:

MAILTO=""

@stefan

I add the following at the end of the cron job

' > /dev/null 2>&1 '

Ignore the ' at start and end. Can't get my markdown to show as code

It captures ALL output from STDOUT and STDERR and sends it to /dev/null (that is, nowhere)

@_elena

@daj @_elena

for me the cronjob is a file I edit by calling "crontab -e" on my server.

so I then put MAILTO="" on it's own line.

What david is suggesting also sound good / better!