option to silence cronjob

[chris400]

When starting a job via veeamconfig, as it is done in the crontab, it generates output to stdout. In case of a cronjob the result is an email send to the user. I can redirect stdout to /dev/null in the cronjob. Sadly this change gets removed, if the job is altered via veeam.

My suggestion is to add an option to the job configurator, to send normal output to /dev/null.

[PTide]

Hi,

Got your point, we will look into that. Also you can set MAILTO="" in /etc/crontab file to supress emails.

Thank you!

[avoest]

I absolutely support the request to add an silence/quiet option.

MAILTO="" isn't really a good solution because you would miss the error messages from the other cron jobs.

You might also consider using STDOUT for standard output and STDERR for error output.

[PTide]

Hi,

Would that be acceptable if Veeam generated cron tasks with STDOUT redirected to /dev/null and STDERR left intact by default?

Thanks

[chris400]

Would be nice if we could choose it by an option.

[mvidalinc]

Is this feature in Veeam now ?

[PTide]

Hi,

Not yet.

[danswartz]

So I got the Linux agent installed on my CentOS 7 storage appliance. Worked like a charm. My only complaint: when it adds the scheduled job to the crontab, it doesn't redirect the output to /dev/null, so I got an email the next morning for the job that had run (successfully) at 6AM. It was easy to edit the crontab line to add '> /dev/null', but the comment at the top of the lines tells you not to edit the file directly, and the next time you add a scheduled job, it will overwrite your change. Is there a better way to do this?

[PTide]

Hi Dan

You can just disable built-in schedule in the backup job wizard, so the agent does not overwrite changes, and keep using your own string in cron.

Thanks

[danswartz]

Ah, thanks!