Cron job without emailing errors to root?

[Frank Mueller]

See "man 5 crontab":
If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. If MAILTO is defined but
empty (MAILTO=""), no mail will be sent.

So just add the following entry to your /etc/crontab:
MAILTO=""
and cron will send no more eMails.

> A quick question--
> I run MRTG for many boxes on my network at five minute intervals, and I am
> seeing massive amounts of email filling up roots inbox due to boxes that
> are currently offline for the night or something.
>
> What I am wondering is, is if there is a way to still have the entries in
> me /etc/crontab to run MRTG at 5 minute intervals without having any
> output emailed out. can i make it come out to concole instead? anything to
> get it from emailing would be great as I am seeing ~2000 messages a day :/
>
> Many thanks
>
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