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it originates from cron. i have redirected the standard output and error output of the cron job to a file. (actually the standard output was already redirected to the file.) the "kill" output is coming from the standard error. the BIG question is, why is a "kill" that is working correctly...

thanx for your response... that seems to make sense, but it really doesn't work. for some reason, the os seems to think that this output is an error. in the kill command i use: kill xyz > /dev/null 2> /dev/null - i still get the mails. if i redirect the output of the script...

hi all, i have a script that is run via cron. the script calls vm_stat with an interval (which make it run forever - it is run as a background process) to collect data. (the vm_stat pid is saved.) when the data collection is done, vm_stat is killed using the saved pid. it all works great...