Crontab

[Gordon Keegan]

If you redirect the output of a cron entry to a file (or /dev/null)
then you shouldn't get email.  For example:

	* 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/myscript > /tmp/myscript.log 2>&1
or
	15,45 8-17 * * * /home/user1/monitor > /dev/null 2>&1

Hope that helps.

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> Hello,
> 	Anyone know how to make crontab stop sending email everytime it
> completes a task.  Or send crontabs mail to /dev/null?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Anthony
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