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cibonato
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 Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject: [SOLVED]Disabling cron mails every time a user run a command |
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Ladies and genttlemen, I created a crontab file for a specific user and everything is goind fine (so?!?!?!).
The problem is that everytime the command is executed the user recieve a mail, but the command is executed once a minute. Yes, it means 3600 mails a day and also means problems to me... hehehe.
So, does anyone know a way to cancel the mailing from cron?
Thank you thank you.
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Katphish
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: |
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what are you using? vixie-cron?
redirect standard out from the command to /dev/null:
| Code: | | 01 * * * * /your/command >/dev/null |
You can send standard error there too but I personally like to know when a command does not go as planned. |
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cibonato
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Will this redirection stop mailing from cron?
Yes, I´m using vixie-cron.
Thank you.
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cibonato
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Ok... it's solved. I found something that do exactly what I want: I just have to put MAILTO="" in the user's crontab and done. No more mails everytime the command is executed.
Great.
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Katphish
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:08 am Post subject: |
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| cibonato wrote: | | Will this redirection stop mailing from cron? |
Yeah, that is exactly what it will do if the emails are the standard output of your program.
You can use a null mailto, but you would be throwing the baby out with the bath water. |
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