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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">The "&> /dev/null 2>&1" means run the job in the background and dump all log output to /dev/null instead of logging it. For testing you may not want to do that but once it works it is a good idea.<br id="FontBreak"></font><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 21:32:22 -0400<br>From: N1XBM@amsat.org<br>To: arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>Subject: [arm-allstar] &> /dev/null 2>&1<br><br><p dir="ltr">I have a question about the subject. On my acid boxes I noticed my mailbox getting very full. A friend pointed out that I was adding things to the cron and if I put that it would not create a message. </p>
<p dir="ltr">On my BBB I just figured cron issues out. Do I need to add the above subject as well? I don't want to jam up my BBB little micro sd card...</p>
<p dir="ltr">I've never noticed BBB telling me I have new messages so I wasn't sure if it was a moot point on the BBB.</p>
<p dir="ltr">N1XBM<br>
Apparare Scientor<br>
Paratus Communicare<br>
Allstar Node # 27086, 41540, 41812, 42086<br>
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