How to silence cron?

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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:11:49 +0200
Per olof Ljungmark wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What would be the proper way to silence output from a php script
> running under cron? I have tried variations of /dev/null and 2>&1 but
> getting nowhere.
>

Have you tried

SHELL=/bin/sh

*/5 * * * * su -m www -c "/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/pathtoscript.php" >/dev/null 2>&1

the redirection has to take place under a bourne-compatible shell, 
so outside of the quotes.

  



On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:44:17 +0100
tech-lists wrote:


> I *think* you can set MAILTO: to /dev/null but I'm not 100% sure. But
> if you can, I think it'll do what you want, if that is to have no
> mail at all for www user.

Crontab variable assignments apply to the lines below the assignment. 
It should be possible to divide the crontab into sections with different
MAILTO values.