CRON + Mailing to Root

[StarTAC]

hi all..

i don't want the output of all jobs mailed to cron, as it is done by default.. i have tried removing the MAILTO variable in the cron configuration file, but that doesn't work..

man cron says a copy of the output from cron is mailed to the owner of cron, as well to the user defined in MAILTO...

is there anyway i can stop mailing coming to root from cron..?.. it's distorting my attempts to capture stats on how much mail my mail server actually handles..

all help appreciated..

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

You can redirect to /dev/null to stop cron from mailing you. example:

55 09-17 * * 1-6 /admin/sys_q_stat > /dev/null 2>&1

dbase77