topic Re: crontab without mail in Operating System - Linux

crontab without mail

Tonatiuh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:24:27 GMT

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3U6

Every time a shell script is executed trhough a crontab, it sends a mail to /var/mail/oracle

Is there any way to avoind this mail sending?

Re: crontab without mail

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:26:23 GMT

Set your cron job like this:

5 * * * 1 /path/to/script > /dev/null 2>&1

Or set the MAILTO variable to null:

MAILTO=

Preferred method is the first.

Re: crontab without mail

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:25:06 GMT

Shalom,

Very interesting. A simple read/post of crontab -l will show that the cron schedule was directing its output to mail.

This was not done automatically, it was configured with the help of a human.

SEP

Re: crontab without mail

Stuart Browne — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:40:56 GMT

No, cron will redirect STDOUT from any jobs executed via email to the owning user.

As far as I am aware, it always has. It has to be overwritten with the MAILTO environment variable set within the cronjob it's self (as Ivan has said).