[lug] crontab messages

[Michael J. Pedersen]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:39:23AM -0600, charles at lunarmedia.net wrote:
> i am running a cron job that is ending up mailing me a status after the
> job is finished. i know that there is a method to prevent this from
> happening, but i can't remember how to do it. i think there is some kind
> of redirect that i need to add in the crontab itself with a > that will do
> it.
> 
> does anyone know what i am talking about?

Yep, it's actually quite easy to do. Add this redirect at the end of the
command line in your crontab:

	>/dev/null 2>&1

And that will prevent any output from appearing. After that, cron will see
nothing, so email you nothing.

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