How to get rid of mail message?

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:35:31 -0600, Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:

>On 2/25/22 12:00 PM, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:04:05 +0000, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Well I have a script that downloads videos internally using ffmpeg and ffmpeg
>> spews out stuff while it is working. But I also have other smaller scripts that
>> are called from the main script and they have user feedback output which I put
>> there just for convenience when I use them manually. Such as audio/video resync
>> utility which works for a while with ffmpeg too and then outputs a success
>> message. This is visible in the "mail".
>>
>> So should the script that creates the at jobs be modified?
>> Now a typical job is created somewat like this (one line):
>>
>> echo "getvideostream 4080 input13.mp4 && syncaudio 0.05 input13.mp4 X && mv
>> input13.mp4 ../new/2022-02-25_13PM_new_video.u.mp4" | at 13:00 today
>>
>> getvideostream and syncaudio are both scripts using ffmpeg and with some user
>> feedback.
>>
>> Should I add  > /dev/null 2>&1 at the end of the quoted command string above or
>> to each of the internal commands separated by &&?
>>
>>
>
>Edit the file /etc/pam.d/login and change the line
>
>session    optional   pam_mail.so standard
>
>to
>
>session    optional   pam_mail.so nopen
>
>Save, logout and then log back in.

I did the change and logged out of my sessions.
When I logged on again I was greeted with this:

...
You have new mail.
Last login: Thu Feb 24 13:33:43 2022 from 192.168.119.236



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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden