From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 18:52: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FC637B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8228F43E5E for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6K1q2Ff065893; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:52:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:52:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Daniel Bye Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron: mailing owner: how to stopit! Message-ID: <20020720015202.GA40625@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020720014445.GB51089@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020720014445.GB51089@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 20), Daniel Bye said: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 06:34:26PM -0700, Steve Warwick wrote: > > I have several scripts that run very frequently and email the owner > > every time the script is run. > > > > I have gone through all the setup / config files but cannot figure > > out how to stop this from happening. Anyone have a list of > > locations I should look for this configuration / option? > > AFAIK, any command run by cron that generates any output, will cause > an e-mail to be sent to the owner of the job. To stop it, you need > to make sure that the scripts called by cron don't generate any > output. This can be done by redirecting the script's stdout to > /dev/null. It's probably not a good idea to redirect stderr to > /dev/null as well, though, as the owner will never receive > notification if the job fails or throws up any warnings. You can also disable mail by setting MAILTO= in your crontab file, before that entry. "man 5 crontab" for more info -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message