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Old 04-08-2015
How to disable cron emails, but only for logrotate only not for other logs?
Guys, is there a script or command?

how to disable cron emails, but only for logrotate only not for other logs
# 2  
Old 04-08-2015
Cron mails you your output. To prevent the creation of mail messages from cron, don't generate any output. Redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/null for those commands you never want to see mail for.
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Old 04-08-2015
true, but only exist in user's crontab ..

but what if a system logs?

like for example,



in /etc/cron.daily

you have

Code:
logrotate
cleaner


Then you only want to disable the email of /etc/cron.daily/logrotate not the others
Last edited by Don Cragun; 04-08-2015 at 05:26 PM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags, again.
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Old 04-08-2015
Did you consider to empty the MAILTO variable? man cron:
Quote:
If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=""), no mail will be sent.
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