Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:52:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron: mailing owner: how to stopit! Message-ID: <20020720015202.GA40625@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020720014445.GB51089@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> References: <B95E0C32.32ED%ukla@attbi.com> <20020720014445.GB51089@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org>
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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
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