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02-18-2002, 02:08 PM	#1
plisken Member Registered: Dec 2001 Location: Scotland Distribution: Slackware 9.1-15 RH 6.2/7, RHEL 6.5 SuSE 8.2/11.1, Debian 10.5 Posts: 516 Rep:	cron mailing to my account Whenever I run a cron job, I have a mail sent to my account, why is this and how can I stop it? Thanks Harry

02-18-2002, 05:10 PM	#2
Malicious Member Registered: Jan 2002 Location: Galveston Island Distribution: suse, redhat Posts: 208 Rep:	Look at /etc/crontab and do "man 5 crontab". Find the MAILTO variable in /etc/crontab and set it to null string MAILTO="". No mail will be sent.

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