topic cron don't send mail in Operating System - HP-UX

cron don't send mail

j773303 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:09:19 GMT

After cron job run, users may got an mail.
Is it possible let cron don't send mail?
Thanks.

Re: cron don't send mail

gstonian — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:53:44 GMT

Best solution would be to take out the mail command in the job run by cron.

Re: cron don't send mail

Peter Godron — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:54:00 GMT

Hi,
is the mail sent by the application ?
If yes, stop the application from sending the mail.
What does the mail say ?

Re: cron don't send mail

Reshma Malusare — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:35:50 GMT

Hi,
First check your cron entries by
Crontab -l

then now you dont want mails then just remove that mail activity from file by editing the crontab by command
crontab -e

Regards,
Reshma

Re: cron don't send mail

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:40:51 GMT

Hi:

If I understand correctly, you *don't* want users to receive mail from crontasks. If your task produces either STDOUT or STDERR output that isn't redirected to a file, 'cron' generates an email to the user.

If this is the case, redirect the descriptor that you don't want: STDERR=2 and STDOUT=1.

Regards!

...JRF...