[ale] cron mail, how to STOP it.

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 20:58 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > I created a cron entry to check my yahoo mail using yosucker. I HATE 
> > getting emailed every X hours to tell me it ran... I "thought" the 
> > correct way to stop the mailing of a cron job running was to add a 
> > 2>/dev/null at the end of the line.
> > here is the line I don't want mail from:
> > 10 3,6,9,12,15,18 * * * /home/pbc/bin/yosucker
> > 
> > 
> > suggestions?
> 
> 10 3,6,9,12,15,18 * * * /home/pbc/bin/yosucker >/dev/null 2</dev/null

This will send all output of the yosucker command to /dev/null.
The cron process _still_ has an automatic email built it that can only
be disabled by the aforementioned
MAILTO=""
line at the top.

Of course this brings up the obvious, "What if I want _some_ crons to
notify me and other to not waste my time?"
Tough cookies. It's an all or nothing deal. There are some other cron
beside the standard Vixie cron that might support that. I have not used
any of them. I use wrapper scripts that handle email notification for
those jobs I need notification of and turned off the cron notification
by default.
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