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May 15, 2002, 6:29 AM
Andy
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Stop cron jobs sending email?
I've just been looking at my server...and I see that every time a CronJob is run, it sends an email to /var/spool/mail/user. Is there a way to stop this? The file size of the mainbox was not huge, but I can imagine it will get larger as I put more cron jobs on.

Has anyone worked a way around this, or am I just wishful thinking?

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May 15, 2002, 6:37 AM
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It normally spews out an email when cron encounters an error.

You should consider alising root email so it goes to one of your email accounts or at least read your root emails ;0)

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May 15, 2002, 6:38 AM
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Send the output of the command to /dev/null.

Example of one crontab on my system:

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# 5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v >> /dev/null 2>&1

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May 15, 2002, 6:43 AM
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May 15, 2002, 6:43 AM
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Ah..your correct Paul. I've just deleted all the emails, but upon looking at a couple of them they are all just error messages saying it wasn't run.

Wil...I'll keep that in mind...could come in handy...lol

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May 15, 2002, 6:45 AM
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/dev/null is your friend.
/dev/caffeine is your saviour

;-)

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May 15, 2002, 6:47 AM
Paul
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And incase you don't know, /dev/null is like your windows recycle bin.
May 15, 2002, 6:50 AM
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Huh? /dev/null is not like your Recycling Bin. When things go to /dev/null they don't come back! :-)

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May 15, 2002, 6:53 AM
Paul
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I was using the term loosely to give andy an idea of what it did.
May 15, 2002, 6:55 AM
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OK. It's just a bit misleading, that's all. I'd hate for him to mv /etc/*.* /dev/null thinking he could reclaim it at a later date ;-)

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May 15, 2002, 7:06 AM
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Sheesh.....

"And incase you don't know, /dev/null is like doing a shift + delete in windows."
May 15, 2002, 7:21 AM
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May 15, 2002, 7:21 AM
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LOl..thanks guys...I assumed it was something like that Wink

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