How to stop a cron job sending email

[Sambit Bikas Pal]

If you want to complete disable mails from cron, add the following at
the top of the crontab-
MAILTO=""

2008/10/31 Johann Spies <jspies at sun.ac.za>:
> The same user crontabs (that run every 5 minutes) that were used on my
> old computer (Debian) now  (on Ubuntu Hardy) produce an email for
> every run.
>
>
> Here is an example of one of them:
>
> # m h  dom mon dow   command
> 0-59/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/krypos
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/krypos
> #!/bin/sh
> killall fetchmail &> /dev/null
> /usr/bin/fetchmail &> /dev/null
>
> I have also tried
>
> 0-59/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/krypos &> /dev/null
>
> But I still get the email every 5 minutes.
>
> That did not happen on my old computer.
>
> How do I stop this?
>
> Regards
> Johann
> --
> Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
> Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
>
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>      destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and
>      tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good
>      things; so that thy youth is renewed like the
>      eagle's."             Psalms 103:2-5
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Sambit Bikas Pal
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