Re: Cron

[Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>]

>How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a
>script. I have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I
>am getting hundreds of messages a day.

Make sure that the programs in question don't produce any output
(e.g. by redirecting the output to /dev/null.)  Cron mailing you any
output that it sees is a feature.

- Richard

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