[TriLUG] Crontab no Mail

[Mike Johnson]

Jeff Bollinger [jeff01 at email.unc.edu] wrote:
> Is there a flag or something I can change so that one of my entries in 
> the Cron does NOT mail the results?  Say I have a job running every 10 
> minutes that I don't want an e-mail report for.  Ideas?

No, there's no flag.  What you need to do is make sure all output from
your job is directed to /dev/null or a logfile somewhere.  cron mails
the contents of stdout and stderr after a job is complete.

So:
5 * * * * /bin/echo "blah blah" >/dev/null 2>&1

Mike
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