How to stop "at" command e-mail me!

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Jul 31 21:03:13 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 15:09, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I use mpg123 as a morning alarm. I place the job using the "at" command. I'm 
> always getting output from the job (the mpg123 output bla bla) to my regular 
> user mail.  Fine..I just redirected stdout and stderr:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/mpg123 $HOME/musicfile.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> However, I still get mail saying "Job XXX Terminated..."  I read the man page 
> and searched Google but there's nothing out there.  Anyone knows how to deal 
> with it?
> 
> Thanks,
> JOrge
> 
1) use cron instead of at, and put a MAILTO="" at the head of the
crontab file.

2) set up an email filter to delete instead of deliver the message.

there may be other options available.







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