cron jobs without mailing 

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:20:56 -0700
> To update my webpages from CVS I use a crontab with some jobs. But every
> time the jobs are executed at sourceforge.net I get a mail. This seems
> to be the default behaviour. Is there a possibility to disable this
> mailing?

IIRC cron only mails when there is output.

Put '>/dev/null 2>&1' at the end of the command in your sf.net crontab.

Stefan O'Rear

cron jobs without mailing 

> IIRC cron only mails when there is output.
>
> Put '>/dev/null 2>&1' at the end of the command in your sf.net crontab.

You can disable all cron mail by setting 'MAILTO=""' in your crontab. See 'man 5 crontab' for details.

Patrick