when cron jobs finished, mails sent to the user

[wchuacs]

Hi all,

I set some cron jobs and when those jobs done, mails always sending to the user. When I login using the user, the message "You have new mail." appears... Is there any setting leads to this kind of feature turned on ?
How to turn it off ?
the mails stored in /var/spool/mail

I am using Compaq Tru64 Digital Unix v4.0F.

thank you thanks & regards,
CS

 

[Guest_imported]

hi,
you have to change your cron job, so that it will not produce any terminal output. Redirect stdout and stderr to a file or to /dev/null.
regards

 

[kevinbranch]

You can avoid this by redirecting the output of the job in your crontab. Use * * * * * /path/to/job >> /dev/null
and you will only get mailed the error messages; to ignore those as well, use
* * * * * /path/to/job >> /dev/null 2>&1
Hope this works for you.