Crontab : Disable email notifications

Fri, Oct 5, 2007

Server

By default, when you schedule a cronjob, the cron daemon will email the administrator with the results of the schedule. You can easily turn off email reporting by appending the string “>/dev/null 2>&1” (without quotes) to the end of the command. Like this :

wget http://domain.com >/dev/null 2>&1

Hope this helps!

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