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From: tel@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.e.lowe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to stop mail from cron
Keywords: Help
Message-ID: <428@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 May 89 02:34:28 GMT
References: <147@jma.UUCP>
Reply-To: tel@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.e.lowe)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <147@jma.UUCP> max@jma.UUCP (Max Heffler @ Landmark Graphics) writes:
>I have a cron entry with output redirected to /dev/null.
>I still get the output, which was echoed from a script,
>sent to me as mail.  How do I shut it up?

Often times information is sent to stderr in addition to stdout.
Your cron entry should look something like:

0 3 * * * command > /dev/null 2>&1

The 2>&1 while redirect the stderr to /dev/null also.

If you already have this in your script, perhaps the command 
itself mails the output from inside.
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