On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 20:10, tc lewis wrote: > > you can set MAILTO within the cron entries. i'm not sure if there's a way > to set it globally or turn off mailing altogether. > > -tcl. >
You can also modify the cron job to either direct output to a log file or /dev/null if you never need to see the normal out put. cron will not send a mail if there is nothing to mail. I use the following to redirect stout to a log file so I only get errors if the program that is called sends anything to stderr. (I also write the scripts with this in mind) 0 23 * * * script_to_run >> /var/log/mydir/script_to_run.log wil run this script at 11PM every night and append the output to a file of my choosing. Since some of these get big I use logrotate to rotate them periodically and keep only the desired number of old ones. If the jobs in question are the system run ones from the /etc/cron.* dirs then the /etc/crontab file is the one that should be looked at and IIRC someone is seeing roots mail. On my important boxes I have the mailto set to my email address so I see them. HTH Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
