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Re: 2 cron problems and 1 solution on XP
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:20:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: 2 cron problems and 1 solution on XP
- References: <BAY101-F3581BC3AAEF50AA00A4F69CA8E0@phx.gbl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Mike Dieter wrote:
> Is there a way to suppress CRON MAILING ME from 'mature' scripts where I
> think I know what cron will say and I don't care?
In addition to what Eric said (lose the '&' at the end), you can use
MAILTO="" to tell cron not to send any mail on failure. "man 5 crontab"
should be enlightening.
Brian
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