cron e-mails

plisken · 03-03-2002, 03:17 PM

Every time a cron job is run, I receive an e-mail of the results/output or to that effect.

As advised by another user, I have changed/removed the MAILTO variable in the crontab.conf file, but this has not helped.

Any suggestions?

dorward · 03-03-2002, 05:48 PM

Redirect the output of the command in cron.

command > /dev/null
or
command > /home/you/somefile

Aussie · 03-03-2002, 06:18 PM

And turn off the sendmail daemon.

plisken · 03-04-2002, 04:45 PM

Unfortunately I need sendmail

I'll try redirecting the output though.....

plisken · 03-05-2002, 02:09 PM

tried command > /dev/null but I still get an e-mail from root when the cron job runs...

Any ideas?

dorward · 03-07-2002, 04:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by plisken
tried command > /dev/null but I still get an e-mail from root when the cron job runs...

Any ideas?

Maybe its STDERR..

try:

command > /dev/null 2> /dev/null