Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:54:17 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron: mailing owner: how to stopit! Message-ID: <20020720015417.GD51089@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20020720015202.GA40625@dan.emsphone.com> References: <B95E0C32.32ED%ukla@attbi.com> <20020720014445.GB51089@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <20020720015202.GA40625@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:52:02PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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 Cool - cheers, Dan. I had never come across that before. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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