thanks,

this did the 'trick'


>From: "Jeff Flowers" <jeffrey@jeffreyf.net>
>To: "Peter Seebach" <seebs@plethora.net>, <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
>Subject: Re: Stop cron from mailing to root Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:15:56 
>-0500
>
> > 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


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