Cron is spamming me

reitzell · 12-03-2004, 09:07 PM

I used Kcron to run a job every few hours and it e-mails me every time it runs. How can I configure cron to not e-mail me everytime it runs?

Thanks,
Rob

btmiller · 12-03-2004, 09:33 PM

if it's mailing you the output from the job, try redirecting the output to /dev/null (or a file if you want to save it somewhere).

Genesee · 12-04-2004, 12:00 AM

this is from a default crontab:

Quote:

# If you don't want the output of a cron job mailed to you, you have to direct
# any output to /dev/null. We'll do this here since these jobs should run
# properly on a newly installed system, but if they don't the average newbie
# might get quite perplexed about getting strange mail every 5 minutes. :^)
#
# Run the hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly cron jobs.
# Jobs that need different timing may be entered into the crontab as before,
# but most really don't need greater granularity than this. If the exact
# times of the hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly cron jobs do not suit your
# needs, feel free to adjust them.
#
# Run hourly cron jobs at 47 minutes after the hour:
47 * * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 1> /dev/null