Re: how to prevent crontab from sending email

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Daniel Tan wrote:

=>hi,
=>    a pretty dumb qn.how to prevent crontab from sending out email to me
=>whenever a job is done.eg. mailscanner updating every 5 mins...i don't want
=>to dump the details into a file but just wanna dump it away..
=>
=>i tried putting > /dev/null at end of cron statement

Do this instead:

cmd > /dev/null 2>&1

If *any* output goes to either stdout or stderr then the owner of the job 
gets email.

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