Hi all,

I have a cronjob to be run every night to backup the database and I don't understand why I keep got the new mail on the user, below is some of the example on my mail:


From oracle Thu Mar 4 19:01:33 2004
Return-Path: <oracle@test.trx>
Received: (from oracle@localhost)
by test.trx (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i25100n04221
for oracle; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 19:00:00 -0600
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 19:00:00 -0600
Message-Id: <200403050100.i25100n04221@test.trx>
From: root@test.trx (Cron Daemon)
To: oracle@test.trx
Subject: Cron <oracle@qhoudb03> /home/oracle/DBA_STUFFS/backup_scripts/HUPODD01/backup.sh
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/oracle>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=oracle>



all of the backup run fine, what can I do to eliminate these mail???

Cron sends the ouput from the command to you. To eliminate this, redirect the output from the command by adding 2&> /dev/null to your cron job.

/Odie

thanks for your reply.

How come it doesn't happen like this before??? All the sudden, I got those mails recently. Any way, could you please give me more detail of how to fix the problem???

thanks

It only sends an email if there is any output from the command, so perhaps the command didn't genereate ouput before?

Did you try adding the '2&>/dev/null' to your cron job?
Edit your crontab (with crontab -e) and append the above to the end of the line containing the backup job. If you still get the emails, we need to dig further.

You could also try biff n to stop your system telling you that you have new mail in /var/mail/ahsley. It won't stop the mail from being generated, but it'll stop telling you about it. Personally, I like having the mail generated, but I use Sylpheed to collect it so I don't want my terminal sessions telling me about it all the time.