HELP HELP stop cron from mailing

plisken · 03-06-2002, 02:03 PM

Someone PLEASE, PLEASE help, I've tried everything that has been advised from this forum and various news groups, books etc, but I still receive an e-mail when cron performs a task.

I've tried removing/modifying the crontab MAILTO file, tried directing the output from the COMMAND to /dev/null etc etc.

but I still get mailed the output, please someone end this nightmare for me!

Thanks

Harry

crabboy · 03-06-2002, 10:14 PM

You have tried redirecting both stderr and stdout to /dev/null...

Code:

1-59 * * * * /bin/command 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
or
1-59 * * * * /bin/command > /dev/null 2>&1

I don't see how it is possible that you are getting output. Are you sure it's not another users cron job?

plisken · 03-07-2002, 12:22 PM

Thanks a bunch.....

I assume that ">" or "1>" is stdout and that
"2>" is stderr.

Thanks

Harry