cron job

Anders Karlsson anders at trudheim.co.uk
Tue Jul 29 20:28:00 UTC 2008


* tony.chamberlain at lemko.com <tony.chamberlain at lemko.com> [20080729 22:11]:
> 
> Output from nightly cronjobs is filling root's mailbox quickly,
> and sending everything else to /var/spool/mqueue.  These are just
> status messages (stdout) from the cronjobs which we don't really need
> mailed to root.  Is there anyway to suppress mailings?

Yes. 'man 5 crontab' - Set
MAILTO=""
in your crontab, and you will suppress mails.

HTH

/Anders




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