How do you tell cron to send the output to a file rather than send an email?

After more research it looks like there is not a way to tell cron to output to a file. Of course you can just modify your commands so that they pipe thier output to a file but my problem is that one of my cron jobs restarts apache and it runs a configtest which outputs "Syntax OK" to the screen regardless of wheither you piped it to a file or not.

Perhaps my question is how can I avoid the "Syntax OK" from being outputted?

I believe this is being outputted by Perl's "configtest" command. I do want the output from "configtest" to output when there is an error. I just don't want the "Syntax OK" message.

The message "Syntax OK" seems to be just standard output and not an err message. So, you could redirect standard ouput to a file. Might as well redirect any errors as well. I would put that in the script at the end of your configtest line.

Here's a couple of examples:
ls nofile > test 2>&1 ## this one only has errors
ls /home > test 2>&1 ## this one only shows the result of ls because it has no errors.

If you don't want it at all, send it to > /dev/null

I tried "ls nofile > test 2>&1" on my local Gentoo machine and it works just fine. But when I try "ls nofile > test 2>&1" on the FreeBSD system, where the cronjob is, it gives me "Ambiguous output redirect." Is the syntax different for "ls nofile > test 2>&1" on a FreeBSD system?

"ls nofile > test 2" works on the FreeBSD system but "Syntax OK" is still outputted to the screen while everything else from the script is piped to the file.

Those were only examples, not to put exactly like that in your script.

Here is an example which may be more meaningful to you....

configtest 1> /dev/null