From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus-agent-fetch in batch mode in a cron job
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:10:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4k8lvyr.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v6jszx6.fsf@riseup.net>
wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse)
writes:
> 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.
From what I understand Emacs outputs the whole *Messages* buffer to
stdout. So there is nothing the shell can do to sort error messages from
information messages. Is that right ?
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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
2013-02-22 6:10 ` Julien Cubizolles [this message]
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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