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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:18:54 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To:        Khetan Gajjar <khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Dick Griffin <dick@dgriffin.org>
Subject:   Re: Stopping cron from sending mail
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990718141854.conrads@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9907181420180.13948-100000@pleb.cs.uct.ac.za>

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On 18-Jul-99 Khetan Gajjar wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Dick Griffin wrote:
> 
>>I have the same problem.  I'll be watching for the quidance you get.
>>Thanks for asking the question.
> 
> add '> /dev/null 2>&1' to the end of it,
> eg.
> 0     *       *       *       *       /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -silent >
> /dev/null 2>&1

You can also place the line:

MAILTO=""

at the top of your crontab.



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