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msh
03-08-2004, 09:58 AM
Hi

I am running a RedHat system with Cpanel. On that machine I have a cron job that runs every hour and every time it runs I get a email about it.

How do I turn the email notification off?

sehe
03-08-2004, 10:39 AM
does the cronjob return some output?

if so, try sending it to /dev/null
e.g.
0 * * * * * /my/script &> /dev/null

it should stop the emails

John[H4Y]
03-09-2004, 12:30 AM
In WHM, you may want to stop WHM from forwarding you root's mail.

apax
03-09-2004, 01:02 AM
MAILTO=""

Add this to your cron file and you'll get no exit reports by default.

Brightadmin
03-10-2004, 02:27 AM
Hi msh,

You can disable email notification by cron job by appending ">/dev/null 2>&1" (without quotes) at the end of cron entry.
If you want to redirect the output of the cron to a log file.
You can do it by replacing the above entry with "> {logfile path and name}" (without quotes).

Regards,

:)