From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 7:13: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [208.11.142.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD1737B423 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA95324 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:12:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:12:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Sander Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suppressing SENDMAIL messages In-Reply-To: <20000818164354.B17537@localhost.bsd.net.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > the output gets mailed to the job owner (me). Is there some way I > could adapt the job so that cron doesn't email the output to me ? This is actually simple- change your crontab entries to 'command 2>&1 > /dev/null' Cron will mail the "results" of any execution, so the only way to get rid of it is to make sure there isn't any output. -=Jim=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message