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From: Alex Barclay <acb@mavericks.bt.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cron Daemon's mails
Date: 28 Jun 1995 08:48:51 GMT
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You'll find that cron just mails _all_ stdout and stderr to the crontab owner.

If you can make sure that there isn't any output then there won't be any mail!

Alex.