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- From: rodean@fc.hp.com (Bruce Rodean)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Mail from cron jobs
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:20:32 GMT
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- Wong Siu To (a866700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk) wrote:
- > Hi there,
- >
- > Could anyone please tell me how to stop the cron jobs from sending mail
- > note to the user who schedules cron jobs ? I've cron jobs run every 5
- > minutes, and there're many job log mailed to my account.
-
- Make sure stdout and stderr are redirected somewhere (if you don't want
- the output, /dev/null is the file to use). If there's output from a
- cron job, it will get mailed to the user as you've noticed. See the
- WARNINGS section in the crontab(1) manual entry.
-
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