How to stop a cron job sending email

Erik Christiansen dvalin at internode.on.net
Fri Oct 31 12:29:07 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 02:08:49PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:15:18PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > Alternatively, putting the line:
> > 
> > MAILTO=""
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  

Hopefully it gives you peace from the recurrent emails long enough to
also consider Karl's very pertinent question. It's difficult to imagine
that there isn't a cleaner way to solve the underlying problem which the
crontab appears to be whumping with a steam-hammer.

Erik

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