On 4/18/25 20:39, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 09:51:27AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
>> Thank you. I'll try "MAILTO="" and chich whether I get an email error
>> tomorrow morning.
> Still got the error bounce this morning. Here are two files. Root's
> crontab without all the comments "grep -v ^# /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root"
>
> MAILTO=""
> 30 03 * * * /root/bin/bkup
>
> And /etc/crontab
>
> # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
> # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
> # command to install the new version when you edit this file
> # and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
> # that none of the other crontabs do.
>
> MAILTO=""
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
>
> # Example of job definition:
> # .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
> # | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
> # | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
> # | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
> # | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
> # | | | | |
> # * * * * * user-name command to be executed
> 17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
> 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily; }
> 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly; }
> 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly; }
> #
As per the earlier response, the only other solution that I am aware of
(and at least used to work) is appending >/dev/null 2>&1 so that all of
the output is thrown away and there is nothing to mail.
Maybe you'll have better luck with that.
Regards,
Ken
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