Re: crontabs

In article <35D54F77.40D73644_at_chat.ru>, Vitaly Kroivets <Vitaly_Kroivets_at_chat.ru> wrote:
>Chad Cunningham wrote:
>
>> I have a crontab set to run a perl script every 15 minutes. For some
>> reason, it feels the need to send me an e-mail telling me of the result
>> of my crontab. How can I persuede it not to do this?
>
> I think that if you will put MAILTO="" at beginnning of crontab , it
>will not email you ..

Having been down this road many times before, the best solution is to put:

        exec >> $HOME/Logs/`date +\%y\%m\%d`.log 2>&1;

at the beginning of the command field of your crontab entry.

Trust me; you won't be sorry.

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