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From: babucher@mtu.edu (Brian A. Bucher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cron Daemon's mails
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Date: 28 Jun 1995 18:47:36 GMT
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Alex Barclay (acb@mavericks.bt.co.uk) wrote:
: 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.
So what you are saying is...use redirection to /dev/null in the script
itself?

Boo