On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:16:08PM -0400 or thereabouts, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:44:59PM -0400, Ryan Waye insinuated: > > Hello: > > I have been having crontab report my exit statuses of backups > > for some time now(they were the only thing there). But now that > > I have getmail on the crontab, this is quickly flooding my > > mailbox. It has been a while, and I can't remember how I made > > cron do this. How do I reverse this setting? > > you mean, you want to stop the cron job? or just stop getting > notified that it's doing its thing? > > to stop it: > > crontab -e > > and remove the appropriate line. > > to stop getting notified about it: > > crontab -e > > and put a '&>/dev/null' (no quotes) at the end of the line, so that > its output goes to the trash, and not to your inbox. > > hth, > > </nori> Thanks alot, that worked.
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