crontab question

[Patrice Blanchard_2]

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

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

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

[Huc_1]

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

[Patrice Blanchard_2]

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.

[Balaji N]

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

-balaji

[V.Tamilvanan]

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.