Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 17:25:19 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab email Message-ID: <4047667F.1090009@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY15-DAV4647LNeGgi00011e30@hotmail.com> References: <BAY15-DAV4647LNeGgi00011e30@hotmail.com>
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Brian Henning wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>Everytime something runs from the the crontab for a given user such as root, I
>get an email with the results of the execution. I am running a few crontabs that
>run every 2 minutes and this gets to be a lot of excess email. How can I turn
>off this feature.
>
>
#man 5 crontab
In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron(8) will look at MAILTO if
it has any reason to send mail as a result of running commands in
``this'' crontab. If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is
sent to
the user so named. If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=""), no mail
will be sent. Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of the crontab.
This
option is useful if you decide on /bin/mail instead of
/usr/lib/sendmail
as your mailer when you install cron -- /bin/mail doesn't do aliasing,
and UUCP usually doesn't read its mail.
PWR
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