[Techtalk] Howto remove everything email-related from Debian?

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:46:05AM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Michelle Konzack thought:
> Am 2007-09-27 17:43:12, schrieb Conor Daly:
> > It strikes me that cron is at fault here.  If a program being run by cron
> > generates output for the screen that is not handled, cron will email that
> > output to the user.  The usual way to deal with that is to redirect the
> > output from the program to either a logfile or to /dev/null (if you don't
> > care about the output).  Given that unexpected output from a program
> > running under cron is usually an error message, it's probably better to
> > use a logfile rather than /dev/null .  My cron entries look like:
> > 
> > * * * * * /path/to/program1 > /path/to/logfile 2>&1
> > * * * * * /path/to/program2 > /dev/null 2>&1
> > * * * * * /path/to/program3 >> /path/to/appended/logfile 2>&1
> > 
> > These will eliminate cron's attempts to email stuff.
> 
> Why not set:
> 
> MAILTO=
> 
> in the crontab?  --  This avoid mangeling of all crontab-lines
> 

What happens if there's output to deal with?  Does cron just dump it?

Conor

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