Schedule its run every minute from the crontab on every LPAR. Change crontab output to >/dev/null

master07

Hi,

is it a problem for the lpar2rrd agent when I change the crontab entry from:

# su - lpar2rrd
$ crontab -l 
* * * * * /usr/bin/perl /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl <LPAR2RRD-SERVER> > /var/tmp/lpar2rrd-agent.out 2>&1

to
# su - lpar2rrd
$ crontab -l
* * * * * /usr/bin/perl /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl <LPAR2RRD-SERVER> > /dev/null

Thanks!

Pavel

Hi,

error output should be redirected also to /dev/null otherwise crontab will try to send errors via email to lpar2rrd account, emails will be saved locally as undeliverable in /var/spool/...

Pavel

this one I would suggest instead:
* * * * * /usr/bin/perl /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl <LPAR2RRD-SERVER> > /dev/null 2>&1

master07

thanks for the quick reply Pavel.

I will change my crontab entry