Subject: Re: suppressing cron e-mail confirmations...
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 14:08:10 MST
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gawain Reifsnyder wrote:
> At 11:44 AM -0800 on 1/3/01, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
> > Redirect the output to /dev/null
>
> Thanks for your response. It comes back with an error saying that it
> can't send email directly to a file. In my crontab file I configured
> it like this:
>
> MAILTO=/dev/null
>
> I guess I still haven't quite got it...
Don't set MAILTO at all. The *only* thing in your crontab file
should be something like:
0 * * * * some_command >/dev/null
- Paul
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