Why is my cron job sending me email

[Tison]

I have a job scheduled via cron.
It runs fine but sends me a blank email every day.
There are no echo or print statements in the job.
Why am I getting this email and how do I stop it ?

 

[KenCunningham]

This is normal behaviour. To stop receiving the mail, your crontab entry should look something like:

00 02 * * * /script > /dev/null 2>&1

The latter parts redirect output to /dev/null, the bit-bucket. Be warned that any errors will also be lost, so you might not know if a job has failed if you take this course. Change /dev/null to the path to a log file if you don't want this to happen. HTH.