[NTLUG:Discuss] Cron

[fredjame]

Scott Hollomon wrote:

>On Mon April 19 2004 10:28 am, terry wrote:
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>>Scott Hollomon wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>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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>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?
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>Thanks.
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Actually, yes.

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