Hi, thanks for the advice! Here is some testing: # Output when things are ok: skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ qcronsub ./do_fafafa.sh Your job 1753569 ("Fafafa") has been submitted # Output when things are not ok: skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ qcronsub ./do_fififi.sh Unable to read script file because of error: error opening ./do_fififi.sh: No such file or directory # Piping to -dev/null: skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ qcronsub ./do_fafafa.sh > /dev/null # Good, nice and quiet. skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ echo $? 0 # And returned zero for success! skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ qcronsub ./do_fafafi.sh > /dev/null # Hmm, also quiet - qcronsub outputs all messages, even on error, on stdout skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ echo $? 14 # But returns correctly. What about qsub? skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ qsub ./do_fafafa.sh > /dev/null skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ qsub ./do_fififi.sh > /dev/null Unable to read script file because of error: error opening ./do_fififi.sh: No such file or directory skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ echo $? 14 # Works as expected! # How about the -o option? Let's try qcronsub. skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ qcronsub ./do_fafafa.sh -o myfile.txt Your job 1753616 ("Fafafa") has been submitted # Nope. qsub then? skagedal@clematis:~/fafafa$ qsub ./do_fafafa.sh -o myfile.txt Your job 1753617 ("Fafafa") has been submitted # Nope, that options seems to do something else. So, in summary, I believe changing "qcronsub fafafa.sh" (which I currently have in my cronie) to "qsub fafafa.sh > /dev/null" will give me the behavior I want. However, without the added qcronsub uniqueness functionality, which is ok for my purposes. (as Platonides said, I'd get a mail from cronie anyway when qcronsub failed - but a less descriptive e-mail...) Merlissimo, I would suggest changing qcronsub so that it outputs on stderr when return code is not 0. Thanks! Regards, Simon On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Sumurai8 (DD) <sumurai8(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think setting the -o (output) parameter to /dev/null while omitting the -e > (errors) and the -j (merging errors & output) parameter should only log > errors. See > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Job_scheduling#arguments_to_qsub/qcronsub > > Sumurai8 > > 2012/3/7 Simon Kågedal Reimer <skagedal(a)gmail.com> >> >> Hi! >> >> Does anyone have a solution for making qsub/qcronsub not say "Your job ... >> has been submitted" to standard output? >> >> Been getting a lot of e-mails from cronie lately... >> >> I *do* of course want it to say something when things are not working as >> expected, so I don't want all output silenced. >> >> Regards, >> Simon Kågedal Reimer (skagedal) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l >> Posting guidelines for this list: >> https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette > > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette