[NTLUG:Discuss] Cron

[Scott Hollomon]

On Mon April 19 2004 1:54 pm, Tom Hoover wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:54:58AM -0500, Scott Hollomon wrote:
> > There are user crontab files in /var/spool/cron, but there is no MAILTO
> > line in those files.  Is the answer as simple, as suggested in another
> > post above, as putting a >/dev/null at the end of each line in the user
> > files I don't want to get mail about?
>
> Or, you can define an "empty" MAILTO, if you don't wish to receive any
> email from the associated crontab file.
>
> From 'man5 crontab':
>
>   If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named.
>   If MAILTO is defined, but empty (MAILTO=""), no mail will be sent.
>   Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of the crontab.

Thanks for the pointer I had MAILTO=  instead of MAILTO="".
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Scott Hollomon
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