Re: [SLUG]

From: Andrew M. Hoerter (amh@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 20 2004 - 17:43:08 EST


On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Steven Buehler wrote:

> Any idea how to keep cron from sending an email when a job is completed? I
> have a couple of mail fetching utilites that run every half hour and the
> cron mailbox fills up quickly.

Depends on the cron daemon, but usually there's an environment variable
you can set in the crontab to prevent email from being sent. For vixie
crond, you can just do:

MAILTO=""

But "man 5 crontab" should turn up whatever it is on your system.

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