Use a MAILTO= in your crontab and notifications will go to any address you want, leave MAILTO blank and it won't mail at all.
On 9/27/09, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote > >> To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage? ;-) > > Sorry about that. Here are the details... > > [d530][root][~] emerge -pv portage > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 USE="-build -doc -epydoc > (-selinux)" > LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB > > Since it only shows up with mutt so far, maybe it's actually mutt... > > d530 mutt # emerge -pv mutt > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.20-r4 USE="pop smime smtp -berkdb > -crypt -debug -doc -gdbm -gnutls -gpg -idn -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -qdbm > -sasl -sidebar -ssl -vanilla" 0 kB > > It is remotely possible that I did make the package.use entries > manually, but very unlikely. > > Speaking of mutt, is there a way to turn off its insistence on > creating symlinks called "sendmail"? My most embarressing moment as a > linux user came several years ago when I first created an hourly > cronjob. I wasn't aware of the need for ending it with "2>&1". The > garbage output went to root via "sendmail", which was actually a symlink > to mutt. mutt is a deliberately dumb mailer that simply pushes email > out the door to my ISP's MTA. So the hourly garbage went to root at my > ISP. They sent me a polite email asking me to kindly stop. <G> > > I took a couple of steps then. Besides adding "2>&1" to my cronjobs, > I set root=<myaccount> in /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf, so that any stuff > getting through would go to my account at my ISP, not to root at my ISP. > I also went around stomping on the symlinks. So far, I've discovered > /usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. In each > case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a > "touch .keep" inside the directory. > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> > > -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle
