Prevent Cron from sending emails

carmeng · 11-10-2003, 04:47 AM

How can I stop the emails that cron sends when it executes a task? I prefer not to receive any emails.

druuna · 11-10-2003, 04:51 AM

Change (or create if it does not excist):
MAILTO=<name>
to
MAILTO=
in crontab file. Do not remove the complete line, otherwise mail will be send to owner of the crontab.

mcleodnine · 11-10-2003, 04:53 AM

Looking at the default crontab in a Slackware box...

Code:

47 * * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 1> /dev/null

Just add the '1> /dev/null' to any line you don't want email for.

druuna · 11-10-2003, 05:08 AM

@mcleodnine:

This will only redirect the output (to standerd output) generated by cron_hourly. If anything is wrong with the script, or the line you created in crontab itself is wrong you will recieve an e-mail.

If you do not want to recieve any (cron) generated mails, use the 'MAILTO=' option.