Let me explain this a bit more. We were working on a solution that our toolserver sends me an affordable quantity of e-mails that can be read. As cron sends a mail if the timed command has some output, it is supposed to bother me only in case of some problem if I redirect standard output to /dev/null. But this is not the case:
binaris@tron:~/pywikipedia$ python figyelmet.py >/dev/null
NOTE: You have new messages on wikipedia:hu
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Updating page [[Kategória:Figyelmet igénylŠlapok 2013 februárjából]] via API
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Bugs item #3605062, was opened at 2013-02-17 06:02
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Submitted By: Tgr (tgr_)
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Summary: pywikipediabot should use standard output
Initial Comment:
All pywikipedia messages go to standard error, making the proper running of such bots from cron very difficult. Normal messages should go to standard output, and only suprising messages (python errors, block notifications, new message notifcations) should go to standard error.
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