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Diasable crontab responce ???

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Name: ntenz
Date: August 18, 2005 at 05:29:18 Pacific
Subject: Diasable crontab responce ???
OS: aix
CPU/Ram: 1024
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Hello guys any of you know how to disable crontab mail response.. i a script which creates another file called text. If i do a /dev/null 2>&1 after the crontab all output to the text command is gone ... isnt there a command to disable crontab mail respence ??


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Response Number 1
Name: Luke Chi
Date: August 18, 2005 at 06:14:17 Pacific
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I don't quite understand the question.

Luke Chi


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Response Number 2
Name: ntenz
Date: August 22, 2005 at 06:08:12 Pacific
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sorry i was running late that day. My question was:

I have a script running as root every thursday. The script is creating a new file and cut's information to >> new file.

When crontab launches the script it furthermore sends me a mail. My question is:
Is there a way to disable the "Send mail responce" ??



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Response Number 3
Name: David Perry
Date: August 23, 2005 at 07:23:24 Pacific
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cron should send the stdout to the owner of the job. If the job produces no output, there should be no mail.


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