topic Re: crontab question in Operating System - Linux

crontab question

Patrice Blanchard_2 — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:00:24 GMT

Hi,

i have a job in the crontab that is running every 5 minutes. The problem is that it sending an email to root everytime. Is there a way to deactivate it? I want to keep having an email send to root for my backups but not for this job.

thanks

regards

Re: crontab question

Alexander Chuzhoy — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:04:33 GMT

edit /etc/crontab and delete the line MAILTO=root
then add this line to a specific cront job

Re: crontab question

Huc_1 — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:39:16 GMT

run the following command as root to look at the content of root contab

#crontab -l

To modify the crontab entry so it stop sending mail each time it runs, that is if this is part of the contab entry.

# crontab -e

If the mail is send from the within the script, modify the script.

If this does not help attach you crontab and or the content of the invoked script, so whe can help you futher.

J-P

Re: crontab question

Patrice Blanchard_2 — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:44:23 GMT

actually, i'm doing a mailx in the script if the process i'm checking every 5 minutes is not running. But i do have another process (running every 30 minutes) that does not have a mailx in it but sends an email to root when it ran.

Re: crontab question

Balaji N — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:06:47 GMT

what does the mail contain. how about redirecting the standard error and output to a different file.

-balaji

Re: crontab question

V.Tamilvanan — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:43:37 GMT

Hi,
00 08 * * * /scripts/fs_check3.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

This is a crontab entry which runs everyday at 8am and I redirected whatever the output and the error to null. Inside the script I have a mailx command which sends me mail whenever the failure occurs.

Do a
# crontab -e
Edit your script line and add the entry >/dev/null 2>&1 at the end of the line.
You mar redirect to a temp file also for your future reference.