I found the MAILTO line in /etc/crontab and will see if that change works
first. If I do /dev/null it'll still send an email (but an empty one).
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Kwan Lowe
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 5:32 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG]
Importance: High
>
> 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.
>
You can send the output to /dev/null. E.g.:
* 1 * * * /bin/somescript >/dev/null 2>&1
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