|I back up my system with a cron job each night invoking tar from a script
|file. Works fine, but it always emails the entire listing of backup files
|to root. Is there something I can add to the cron script to prevent this?
|
If cron jobs produce output, then the output gets mailed to the job owner.
Make sure that jobs which succeed have their output redirected to /dev/null
echo "this job won't send mail" > /dev/null
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