Re: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) ???

[Andrei Smirnov <andrei.s@myrealbox.com>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:04PM +0000, Dave Selby wrote:
> My dial on demand link is activated when my cron.weekly job is terminated. 
> Nothing in cron.weekly calls the link ... It appears that when it terminates 
> cron.weekly mails the output or perhaps I should say cron mails the output?? 
> !!!
> 
> Any idea what process mails the output ?? and how to stop it !!
> Dave

according to man ... put this in /etc/crontab
MAILTO=""
but as far as i remember it doesnt work
.. on the other hand - my cron do not mail anything
maybe i shut it off somewhere else

> ontents of ..
> /var/log/syslog
> 
> Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' started
> Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[611]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly' 
> to 2003-01-30
> Jan 30 07:24:01 debian syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.
> Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing 
> output)
> Jan 30 07:24:01 debian pppd[189]: Starting link
> Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Serial connection established.
> Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem