From: wgreenhouse-sGOZH3hwPm2sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org (W. Greenhouse)
To: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: gnus-agent-fetch in batch mode in a cron job
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:39:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v6jszx6.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87liarooj7.fsf@free.fr>
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
> stderr ?
>
> 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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-13 22:08 Julien Cubizolles
2013-02-20 16:39 ` W. Greenhouse [this message]
2013-02-22 6:10 ` Julien Cubizolles
2013-02-22 6:32 ` W. Greenhouse
[not found] ` <mailman.20575.1361513992.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2013-08-01 12:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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