[S3tools-general] s3cmd quiet mode for cron jobs

[Florin Andrei]

The --no-progress option is great, but when running s3cmd from a cron
job, it would be great if it had a quiet mode, where absolutely no
output is generated, unless there's an error.

On many systems, a cron job does not generate an email to the owner if
the command does not produce any output. This way, if the command is
silent unless there's a problem, the cron job also will be quiet as long
as everything is okay.

This helps a lot with keeping the email volume down.

Thanks.

[Scott Jacobsen]

I redirect standard out to /dev/null in my cron jobs. s3cmd sends errors to
standard error, so I only get emails on error.

Post by Florin Andrei
The --no-progress option is great, but when running s3cmd from a cron
job, it would be great if it had a quiet mode, where absolutely no
output is generated, unless there's an error.
On many systems, a cron job does not generate an email to the owner if
the command does not produce any output. This way, if the command is
silent unless there's a problem, the cron job also will be quiet as long
as everything is okay.
This helps a lot with keeping the email volume down.
Thanks.
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[Florin Andrei]

I just noticed -q in a newer version (1.5.0-beta). Does that suppress
everything, or does it allow errors to go to stderr?

[Matt Domsch]

-q sends stdout to /dev/null. Errors still appear on stderr.

Post by Florin Andrei
I just noticed -q in a newer version (1.5.0-beta). Does that suppress
everything, or does it allow errors to go to stderr?
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