You wrote,
>dunno about linux cron, but you can set MAILTO to "" in the crontab
>file on BSD if you don't want emails.
It depends on which version of cron you have installed. Fancy crons like
Vixie cron can set all sorts of things, including MAILTO. "Classic cron"
doesn't.
I currently have Slackware 10.0 installed, which uses Dillon's Cron.
Dillon's Cron is a very simple "classic cron"-like system, whose
documentation states, "Unlike other crond/crontabs, this crontab does not
try to do everything under the sun." MAILTO isn't available.
">/dev/null 2>&1" should work with any cron, no matter how fancy, as long
as it uses /bin/sh to execute commands.
- Neil Parker
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