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From: ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do I stop crond from mailing?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 09:43:49 -0400
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In article <2po6o5$ab6@hermod.uio.no>,
Thomas Berge <Thomas.Berge@studorg.uio.no> 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 :-)

If you don't even want a copy of the output, you could just send it to
/deg/null....
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