> 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.

According to the crontab(5) manpage:

"In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron(8) will look
at MAILTO if it has any reason to send mail as a result of
running  commands  in  ``this''  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.  Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of
the  crontab."

So you just need to edit root's crontab.


Jeff Flowers
jeffrey@jeffreyf.net