You can also set your MAILTO variable to null in your crontab and it'll stop all email output. The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress. ;):):-):):-):):-)8') Michael McGlothlin http://kavlon.org/projects/ On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Don Erickson wrote: > In article <20020628162532.3490.qmail@web13106.mail.yahoo.com> you write: > >Okay... silly question... How can I tell a cronjob to > >quit e-mailing everytime it runs. > > My understanding is, the cron job only emails stdout or sterr output to > the owner. To disable this, redirect any such output to /dev/null, like > this: > > * * * * * fred /usr/bin/annoying_cron_job > /dev/null 2>&1 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This is the part to append to the line. > > > Regards, > > -Don > > >