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   From: Michael Fierro    
   Subject: Re: [update] XFCE4 & bgchanger   
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:28:04 -0700   
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   On Friday 23 February 2007 01:36 pm, BlackTopBum ranted on thusly:    
      
   > Thank you, that's the very thing I was thinking about when I left for   
   > work. Having a problem tho'. If I'm not logged in cron sends the   
   > following message (for obvious reasons):   
      
   Try this:   
      
           */5 * * * * killall -USR1 xfdesktop >/dev/null 2>&1   
      
   That sends all output from the command to /dev/null, so cron won't email you   
   anything. You could also set cron to not email anything, but as you start   
   using cron for more and more, you'll almost definitely run into situations   
   where you WANT cron to alert you to problems.   
      
   >/dev/null 2>&1 tells the shell to send all standard input to /dev/null, and   
   to interleave standard error messages there, too. You could also use   
   just ">/dev/null," which would discard all of the standard input, but would   
   let error messages still be sent. For the simple command you are running,   
   though, you probably won't have to worry about any errors.   
      
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