On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:56:55AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > Everytime something runs from the the crontab for a given user such as root, I > get an email with the results of the execution. I am running a few crontabs that > run every 2 minutes and this gets to be a lot of excess email. How can I turn > off this feature.
Either set the MAILTO variable at the top of the crontab file to an
empty string, or redirect stdout and stderr from each of the commands
to /dev/null -- something like:
5 * * * * yourcommandhere >/dev/null 2>&1
See crontab(5) for details of MAILTO and sh(1) for how to redirect the
file descriptors.
Cheers,
Matthew
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