How to get rid of mail message?

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 16:56, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:35:40 +0000, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 16:32, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 16:31, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 15:45, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > I have started to see a pop-up message in my terminal with the following text:
> >> > >
> >> > > You have new mail in /var/mail/<username>
> >> > >
> >> > > If I look at this (it is actually not an  email, it is just a text file) it
> >> > > seems to contain output from an application which is scheduled to run hourly by
> >> > > at.
> >> >
> >> > It sounds like they may be cron emailing you (which is the default).
> >> > This is what I did to stop that (though I was just following something
> >> > I found somewhere so it may not be the best way, or may be out of
> >> > date.
> >> > Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and add ,cron.none to these two lines so you have
> >> >
> >> > auth,authpriv.*,cron.none                      /var/log/auth.log
> >> > *.*;auth,authpriv.none,cron.none               -/var/log/syslog
> >>
> >> Ah, no, that was to stop cron logging, obviously.  Will have another
> >> look at my notes.
> >
> >This is it I think. It is just a matter of redirecting the output to
> >null in the cron command.
> >https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disable-the-mail-alert-by-crontab-command/
> >
>
> THanks!
> I will try this. Easy for cron jobs but harder for scripts started by at...
> There are a lot of scripts involved, do I have to edit all of them to redirect
> the output?
> The at commands are pretty complex (generated by another script) but I will have
> a look at it.

If you redirect a script output doesn't it propagate down?

Colin

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