Re: [SLUG] Keep alive tool

[James Wilkinson <jamesw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Brian Marr generated:

>If you have trouble with log files filling your partition
>
>REMEMBER THIS
>
> echo > /var/spool/mail/root

Why not just redirect stdout/stderr if you don't want output?

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#!/bin/sh

ping -c 2 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null 2>&1
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Then you don't go around nuking roots mailbox, which IMHO is pretty
dumb.

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jamesw

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