Cron email

[ricardo777]

Hello,

I have setup some crons, but how can I disable the email for it?

Getting spammed because the crons.

[skid]

If command return output you will get it on email. Check out if it support quite mode. If it is not, you can always suppress output by adding "> /dev/null 2>&1" to the end of command line

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some_commad - a arg1 -b arg2 > /dev/null 2>&1

[ricardo777]

If command return output you will get it on email. Check out if it support quite mode. If it is not, you can always suppress output by adding "> /dev/null 2>&1" to the end of command line

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some_commad - a arg1 -b arg2 > /dev/null 2>&1

Thank you I will try it out.

[websystems]

Hello

I came here, as I had the same problem.

I tried /dev/null 2>&1 before I started to google solution. At other servers it works, at VestaCP Centos I had problem with - it did not.

I checked user crontab using shell and I found and commented this:
#MAILTO=[email protected]
#CONTENT_TYPE="text/plain; charset=utf-8"

Now, there are no user cron emails anymore.

ANyway, if somebody knows why regular /dev/null 2>&1 does not work, please share the knowledge, as I do not like 'solutions' mentioned above.

[joem]

Hello

I came here, as I had the same problem.

I tried /dev/null 2>&1 before I started to google solution. At other servers it works, at VestaCP Centos I had problem with - it did not.

I checked user crontab using shell and I found and commented this:
#MAILTO=[email protected]
#CONTENT_TYPE="text/plain; charset=utf-8"

Now, there are no user cron emails anymore.

ANyway, if somebody knows why regular /dev/null 2>&1 does not work, please share the knowledge, as I do not like 'solutions' mentioned above.

you forgot > it should be

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> /dev/null 2>&1

[websystems]

Hello

I came here, as I had the same problem.

I tried /dev/null 2>&1 before I started to google solution. At other servers it works, at VestaCP Centos I had problem with - it did not.

I checked user crontab using shell and I found and commented this:
#MAILTO=[email protected]
#CONTENT_TYPE="text/plain; charset=utf-8"

Now, there are no user cron emails anymore.

ANyway, if somebody knows why regular /dev/null 2>&1 does not work, please share the knowledge, as I do not like 'solutions' mentioned above.

you forgot > it should be

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> /dev/null 2>&1

No, I did not. I just forgot it in this post. The cron entry looks like:

wget https://www.myrealdomain.com/wp-cron.ph ... processing > /dev/null 2>&1