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From: thomasbe@uio.no (Thomas Berge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do I stop crond from mailing?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 17:14:39 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo
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Eric S. Hvozda (ack@clark.net) wrote:
>>Does anybody know how I can prevent crond from mailing to the crontab-user
>>after it has finished the job?
>Redirect the output. Don't forget about stderr too :-)
How could I do that? Should I do it when starting the crond? (Like this:
crond >/dev/null) Or do you suggest that I could redirect the output of
crond in some other way? After all, it sends a mail *automagically* to the
user who "owns" the crontab (or another user, if MAILTO=something).
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