[TriLUG] Crontab no Mail

[Andrew C. Oliver]

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Mike Johnson wrote:

>Jeff Bollinger [jeff01 at email.unc.edu] wrote:
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>>Is there a flag or something I can change so that one of my entries in 
>>the Cron does NOT mail the results?  Say I have a job running every 10 
>>minutes that I don't want an e-mail report for.  Ideas?
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>No, there's no flag.  What you need to do is make sure all output from
>your job is directed to /dev/null or a logfile somewhere.  cron mails
>the contents of stdout and stderr after a job is complete.
>
>So:
>5 * * * * /bin/echo "blah blah" >/dev/null 2>&1
>
>Mike
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