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Crontab



Today, Anthony J. Gabrielson gleaned this insight:

> Hello,
> 	Anyone know how to make crontab stop sending email everytime it
> completes a task.  Or send crontabs mail to /dev/null?  

in crontab, redirect the stdout and stderr of the command to /dev/null.


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