[NTLUG:Discuss] Cron

terry kj5zr at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 19 10:28:08 CDT 2004


Scott Hollomon wrote:
> I don't want the cron daemon to send me email when it runs, or better yet, to 
> email me when some jobs run but not others.  I tried to turn it all off by 
> doing the following:  edit the mail to line in /etc/crontab so that there was 
> no address, then I restarted crond.  But that didn't work.  Any suggestions?
> 
> 
That should work, according to man 5 but you might grep for "mail" or 
"Mail"  or "MAIL" in that crontab file or, any other one, (Could it be 
coming from another user's crontab?)

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