How to supress mail from crontab jobs to root

[sap-basis]

Hi, All:

I wrote some Perl programs and scheduled those perl programs to be run in crontab with ID root.
Those perl jobs themselfs are running fine but every time after a job finishes, the system will send mail to id root(which is the owner of the crontab) about it. Some of the perl jobs are running every hour or even every half hour. This could be annoying because I have clean the mailbox of root very often.

Does anybody know when I schedule those Perl programs in Crontab, how can I supress the mail to ID root? I just want to disable the mail received from the execution of those Perl programs but not disable root from receiving mail from other crontab jobs(other jobs are not executed as often as the Perl ones so it does not matter much).
Thanks.

[Victor Semaska_3 · Accepted solution]

Look at this thread to see if it helps you.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=901569

Vic

[sap-basis]

yeah, you are right!

Problem solved!

Thanks a lot!

[Ross Minkov]

Just add "> /dev/null" or "> /dev/null 2>&1" at the end of the crontab line with your script. Make sure you understand the difference between the two. I'd suggest add just ""> /dev/null" first.

-Ross

[sap-basis]

Hi, Ross:

Thanks for the reply.

Your solution is right, thanks!

[Ross Minkov]

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Best Regards,
Ross

[sap-basis]

Thanks, points assigned to both of you.

Have a good one!