cron returning information even if I tell it not to?

Saulyx

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Hey guys, I got php/curl code going through cron, and it keeps returning things such as

Code:
* About to connect() to www.google.com port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 209.85.225.103... * connected
* Connected to www.google.com (209.85.225.103) port 443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
 CApath: none
* SSL connection using RC4-SHA
* Server certificate:
* 	 subject: C=US; ST=California; L=Mountain View; O=Google Inc; CN=www.google.com
* 	 start date: 2009-12-18 00:00:00 GMT
* 	 expire date: 2011-12-18 23:59:59 GMT
* 	 common name: www.google.com (matched)
* 	 issuer: C=ZA; O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.; CN=Thawte SGC CA
* 	 SSL certificate verify ok.
GET /recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_VuvT6mKrgGcQ3FSdYKFxDUJ5oKlOJOs45T9mXl7_MrVNf3vtCgN9a1uXFZrJ_ORi9QIbQkChJgLe0BtkE5uM5eUah6wHSxl9A85gv9_Bc3nQ_iLmRtczF5EKgRefQ7odhckfbW2MVp8hcDbYIXaGDEF9UkLkYQ HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://twitter.com/account/create

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Expires: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:40:16 GMT
< Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:30:16 GMT
< Cache-Control: public, max-age=600
< Content-Type: image/jpeg
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< Content-Length: 3440
< Server: GSE
< 
* Connection #0 to host www.google.com left intact
* Closing connection #0

hasnt got echo, or print, or anything, cant replicate in browser, anyone could help? I got -q before the file path so It shouldnt return anything
 
usr/bin/somecommand >> /dev/null 2>&1

you want to add the part " >> /dev/null 2>&1" after your cron command. This tells cron to send all output to trash. Search it on G
 
thank you sir :D seemed to work, cheers
 
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