Cron mail

[Kevin Daines]

I have recently had to set up a cron job to run every half an hour, this is generating many mails.

Is there anything I can set to stop this particular cron job sending a mail?

Kind regards

[Nicolas Dumeige · Accepted solution]

Hello,

cron wil send you a mail only if the script produced output.

Using redirection, cron will be silent.

* * * * /my/script 1>my_log 2>&1

Cheers

Nicolas

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

send the output of the crontab entry to /dev/null

example below.

00 20 * * 6 /usr/local/nsr/bin/rt n c >/dev/null 2>&1

Robert-Jan