Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:25:17 +0100 (CET) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab email Message-ID: <20040304182311.V26851@mirrorball.theloosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <BAY15-DAV4647LNeGgi00011e30@hotmail.com> References: <BAY15-DAV4647LNeGgi00011e30@hotmail.com>
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[Brian Henning, 2004-03-04] > 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. You only get mail if the script produces any output. Put a >/dev/null at the end of the commandline, and you will only get mail when something is written to stderr, not stdout. Svein Halvor
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