How to stop crontab mail?

_TK_ · 06-03-2001, 02:20 PM

I created a crontab to run a program every hour. Now whenever it executes, its send a mail message. I don't require the mail message. How can I shut that feature off??

rshaw · 06-03-2001, 04:19 PM

change the mailto= line to MAILTO=/dev/null

_TK_ · 06-03-2001, 06:11 PM

Thanks for the info

jharris · 06-04-2001, 11:04 AM

You can also just redirect STDOUT and STDERR for the specific command you are using, something like

Code:

myCMD > /dev/null 2>&1

(I think). I assume that the MAILTO option is an overall setting in a config file somewhere yeah?

HTH

Jamie...

unSpawn · 06-04-2001, 11:11 AM

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I assume that the MAILTO option is an overall setting in a config file somewhere yeah?

Ure absolutely right. On my box its set in /etc/crontab & it wouldnt be kewl to disable that in the event of some -other- cronjob barfing up error messages, admin should know about it...