Re: cron.daily, howto control mailed reports

[Joao Clemente <jpcl@rnl.ist.utl.pt>]

Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 02:22:10AM +0000 or thereabouts, Joao Clemente wrote:
>
> > Why do I receive daily reports (in my mail system) from this particular 
> > script being runned, but not from other also existant in /etc/cron.daily?
>
> If you want it to run silently, you can put MAILTO="" in /etc/crontab
> But otherwise cron jobs only mail if there's output to stdout, so if
> you want more out put, not less, you'd have to set each one
> individually (I think).

Thanks Benjamin, running silently was what I was looking for.
Robert: no problem, thanks for the answer anyway :-)

Joao Clemente