Re: gnus-agent-fetch in batch mode in a cron job

[W. Greenhouse]

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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