crontab email

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:56:55AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote:

> Everytime something runs from the the crontab for a given user such as root, I
> get an email with the results of the execution. I am running a few crontabs that
> run every 2 minutes and this gets to be a lot of excess email. How can I turn
> off this feature.

Either set the MAILTO variable at the top of the crontab file to an
empty string, or redirect stdout and stderr from each of the commands
to /dev/null -- something like:

   5 * * * * yourcommandhere >/dev/null 2>&1

See crontab(5) for details of MAILTO and sh(1) for how to redirect the
file descriptors.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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