Cron job without emailing errors to root?

[Quintin Riis]

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See documentation for crontab.  ``MAILTO=""'' should do what you want,
or send all output from command to /dev/null, i.e. command &> /dev/null

		Quintin

phoetoid at pyrospheric.net wrote:
| 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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