On Jun 21, 2002, 19:02 (-0500) ABrady wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:13:36 -0500 > "Jesse Angell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Cron always outputs to my clients by emailing them. > > this annoys them as it makes no since to them. > > How do I disable the emailing cron does? > > You can change /etc/crontab and make the obvious line read > > MAILTO="" > > No more mail. But also no notification of problems that might be > associated with running crontab.
... yo; this is why I don't write this MAILTO="" (see man 5 crontab please) entry and instead put a > /dev/null 2>&1 at the end of *those* commands where I don't want to get notified on anything of their results, like so [/your/crontab/command] > /dev/null 2>&1 At least this works here, on a single user machine ... Hoping this helps. Regards Wolfgang > > -- New Key on: http://home.t-online.de/home/520050060325-0001/ Key fingerprint = 2B4D FE85 924D 06CC 881D 2E8D 771F 0EDE 92F6 DDFF [created on 2002-06-11] http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/ -- END TRANSMISSION -- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
