All of my cron jobs seem to be sending emails to the root email address every second as I have lots of cron jobs running that need to run.

I seem to have over 5000 mails in my queue at the moment. My first questions is, how do I clear a send mail queue?

I logged into ssh and tried to get into the root mailbox, but it says no email is in there, yet the cron emails are being sent to root@ and I see 5000+ in the queue.

Also how do you make sure a cron does not send an email when it runs. I have a cron that says this:
php -f /sites/forumhoster.com/admin/chkserv.php

I was told if I change it to this it will stop emails, yet they are still being added to the queue:
php -f /sites/forumhoster.com/admin/chkserv.php>/dev/null 2>&1

is this cpanel server?

u can delete the files in the queue dir which will empty the queue

the line given should send all output to /dev/null and will send no emails unless the script has MAILTO entry to send email to

I'm not sure if this works in Linux, but in BSD, you can put this at the top of your crontab:

MAILTO=user@domain.com

Either try using /dev/null there, or create a dummy email account somewhere that forwards to /dev/null. I'm sure there's another way of doing it, though.

Originally posted by macker123
php -f /sites/forumhoster.com/admin/chkserv.php>/dev/null 2>&1

Try:

php -f /sites/forumhoster.com/admin/chkserv.php 2>&1 > /dev/null

2>&1 redirects stdout to stdin, the > then directs stdin to a file (/dev/null).