Subject: Re: Stop cron from mailing to root
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/01/2002 07:41:27
In message <F81OJhKPc99ir3wSimD00000181@hotmail.com>, "Carlo Smith" writes:
>Hi,
>
>Cron sends emails to confirm it performed tasks, how can I select what
>messages to mail and what not?
You can't easily; it will always send the output of a command if there
is any. You probably ought to alias root to the sysadmin's account, that
reduces the annoyance substantially.
-s