Re: Suppress email output of crontab job


"Michael Vilain" <vilain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <g81voi$roj$1$8302bc10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Martin Smith <mjs01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Vilain wrote:
In article <tuSdnR1dSqC1uDnVnZ2dnUVZ_tHinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Jack B. Pollack" <N@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to suppress the emailing of a particular crontab job.
When I try to redirect the output to /dev/null I get a permission
denied in
the email message.

How can I suppress the emailing of this job? I dont want to change
file/folder permissions to do it.

Thanks

AFAIK, there's no environment variable to suppress cron from sending
mail. Best you can do is ensure your single-line command or script
returns no value or output. This is typically done using Borne shell
redirect at the end of the line -- e.g. "> /dev/null 2>&1".

Actually the traditional FBSD way to do this is to have
mailto=""

Thanks guys for posting. Both the Mailto="" and the "> /dev/null 2>&1" dont
help. Still getting messages.
See my reply to Greg Pratt I am going to post details.


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