[NTLUG:Discuss] Cron

[Scott Hollomon]

On Mon April 19 2004 10:28 am, terry wrote:
> 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?)


There are user crontab files in /var/spool/cron, but there is no MAILTO line 
in those files.  Is the answer as simple, as suggested in another post above, 
as putting a >/dev/null at the end of each line in the user files I don't 
want to get mail about?

Thanks.
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Scott Hollomon
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