Cron is sending mail.

[vinu1]

My sendmail service is stopped and cron sends mail, those mail get queued up in clientmqueue directory. I want to stop cron from sending mails. All jobs run under root. And cron sends mail to root. I have tried to set MAILTO="", but its not working. Is there any other way to stop mails from cron to root? Thanks in advance.

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

can you check from root crontab "any entry" for sendmail ?

you can comment that line.

HTH,

Regards,
Johnson

[vinu1]

Hi, I have checked there is no entry in crontab file regarding sendmail. There are variabels like path, shell, mailto etc. and scheduled jobs like cron.dailly, cron.weekly etc.

Vinu

[Aneesh Mohan]

Hi Vinu,

Please see the below thread.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1258616571464+28353475&threadId=1232134

Aneesh

[vinu1]

Hi Aneesh,
I have tried that, but its not working,
and my /etc/crontab looks as :

MAILTO=""
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly >> /var/log/cron 1 <&2
etc.

And I dont want mails from cron. What should i do?

Thanks
Vinu

[Aneesh Mohan]

Hi,

can you change the entry in crontab like below and let me know

01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly >> /var/log/cron 2>&1


Aneesh

[Tingli]

Try
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly > /dev/null 2>>&1

[Dennis Handly]

>Is there any other way to stop mails from cron to root?

By redirecting stdout and stderr in root's crontab, for each entry, either to a file or /dev/null.
Or for each script, do it inside.

>MAILTO=""

This doesn't exist for HP-UX.

>Aneesh: Please see the below thread.

That's Linux only.