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Topic: Disable cron sending emails

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Good Day

could someone please help me to disable cron from send emails

when ever a cron job runs it sends a email to postmaster@domain.com,

i have a cron job that runs every minute that mean's that every minute i get a email, this is really annoying

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2 Reply by mrteam

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Re: Disable cron sending emails

Hello

You can change the output by adding at the end the task row 2>&1 > /dev/null

Only if you send mail and returns error.

3 Reply by graham

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Re: Disable cron sending emails

i dont want to do that

i want to prevent cron from ever sending emails to root

4 Reply by graham

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Re: Disable cron sending emails

but your solution does work

5 Reply by mrteam

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Re: Disable cron sending emails

add in first line:

MAILTO=""

never send email.

6 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: Disable cron sending emails

If your command in cron job outputs something, cron will mail to the job owner (in your case, root user).