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have cron stop e-mailing you

April 20th, 2007 by Lawrence David

append “> /dev/null 2>&1″ to your crontab, i.e.:

* * * * * my job > /dev/null 2>&1

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2 Responses to “have cron stop e-mailing you”

1. on 02 May 2007 at 12:55 pm   Andrew Louie

   Alternatively, fire up old crontab -e, and insert a line containing

   MAILTO=”

   to not specify a mailer. instead errors goto syslog or whatever you have set up for logging.

2. on 16 Jun 2009 at 1:54 pm   Albert Wang

   e.g.! not i.e.!