cron mailings

[Mark Vollmers]

I have a cron job that I have just setup to run daily (it was weekly). it runs as root and goes through and deletes some temp files from a number of specified directories. I do not need to see the output as it is run, and now that it is moving to a daily operation, it could fill up the root mailbox. Is there a way to configure the cron job to not mail for that operation while still mail outputs for the other jobs that are setup (backup, etc)? Thanks.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell · Accepted solution]

Hi

Use this format :-

15 06-21 * * * /avro/DATA/BBS3A.FILE/sendout_lates > /dev/null 2>&1

And it will stop mailing you.


HTH

Paula

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Mark,
As Paula suggested you can send the output to /dev/null, what you want, or to a file(if our are still a bit paranoid and want to double check...):
10 17 * 6,7,8 1,5 yourjob>>outfile 2>&1
#The 2>&1 redirects any error msg to the file outfile.

Best regards
Victor