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Gilbert, > Just tried it. I got this in my inbox: > > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:16:01 -0600 (CST) > From: Cron Daemon <address@hidden> > To: address@hidden > Subject: Cron <ldm@weather3> /bin/bash -l -c 'wasReceived -f > "WMO|NIMAGE|NGRID|NEXRAD3" -o 180' || /bin/mail -s 'NOAAPORT data has not > been received in the last 3 minutes' address@hidden > </dev/null > > [ The following text is in the "UTF-8" character set. ] > [ Your display is set for the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ] > [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] > > Null message body; hope that's ok I recommend using mailx(1) instead of mail(1). > OK. Is there any way I can clean that up? I'm not sure what you want to do, exactly. You could redirect the standard input stream to a particular file instead of "/dev/null". > LDM 6.9.1 on all systems now, including NOAAport ingester. What do you do? Poll our FTP directories? :-) > ******************************************************************************* > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > (My opinions only!) ****** > Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** > E-mail: address@hidden *** > web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** > ******************************************************************************* Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: YGA-963195 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed