at.allow and STDOUT/STDERR

[LinuAIX]

Help! I have a system user that submits "at" jobs via a script that has not changed in years. After implementing secuiry, ie added at.allow and cron.allow with appropriate user id's, it now e-mails the user STDOUT and STDERR. It did not before. Any Ideas as to what changed?!?


LinuAIX
Unix Dude
SysAdmin

 

[bi]

I'm surprised it didn't send the email before you made the at.allow and cron.allow entries.

If you don't want the emails to be sent, add this at the end of the at command: > /dev/null 2>&1

this sends stderr and stdout to /dev/null.

 

[LinuAIX]

Well aware of the 1>/dev/null 2>&1. The real question is WHY they started sending the mail! The script that submits the AT jobs has not changed and did not receive these e-mails before.