cron Jobs and Email 3

[Michael42]

Hello,

On a Solaris 8 system I have a cron job that runs as root and sends it's output to the root's email address.

I have nothing in the cron job that generates the email. It seems to be comming from the system itself.

How can I set all my cron jobs on this system so as they do not generate emails?


Thanks,

Michael42

 

[z28sarefun]

If the program/script/command that the crontab runs generates any output it'll send an email of the output to the root alias (or the user if it's a user crontab). The easiest way I know to stop this is to redirect any output of the program to /dev/null or a log file if you want to keep it.

Depending on what it is you may want to write some logic into the script that only throws output if there's a problem with the execution of the script. Then at least you know if it's not working.

Brian

 

[coohand]

z28sarefun is right, but here's just an example crontab to further clarify...

* * * * * /yourscript > /dev/null

 

[bi]

coohand's method will email you if there is an error. If you don't want an email regardless of an error (for example, if you are creating a log file within your script that you will check to make sure everything was OK), use this:

* * * * * /yourscript > /dev/null 2>&1

 

[Michael42]

Great!

Thanks all for your very useful advice.

Thanks,

Michael42