[NTLUG:Discuss] crontab

Rev. wRy slot0k at pogox.org
Thu May 29 09:12:14 CDT 2003


Richard Humphrey wrote:
> Is there a way to tell crontab to stop emailing me every time that it
> performs the scheduled command?

Does the command produce output and/or errors?  If so, I believe the 
default is to mail it to the job owner.

Just redirect the output to the bit bucket from the crontab:

foo > /dev/null 2>&1

>  Richard Humphrey

Ry




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