Route new email and erase current

[m3bik]

I have a crontab that accesses a php script on my server. The cronjob emails the root account after every job. How can I route mail to root to /dev/null? I've found a few tutorials on forwarding to /dev/null but I can't seem to get them to work on my server...

Thanks.

[m3bik]

Sorry, it's not addressed to root@server it's addressed to user@server but it's the user I use as root...

[m3bik]

Still no luck...

[m3bik]

I've tried editing the alias file, /etc/aliases and added:

user: /dev/null

Restarted the server. The user account still gets mail...

[m3bik]

I've tried creating a symlink from /var/mail/user to /dev/null and that still doesn't work! The server renames the symlink to something crazy and creates /var/mail/user again.

[Dr Small]

To redirect stdout to /dev/null, you append this to the end of your crontab command:

> /dev/null

To send both stdout and stderr to /dev/null, you would use this:

> /dev/null &> /dev/null

Dr Small

[m3bik]

I've added that, and I still get an email...

[Dr Small]

You come in and make it soo easy.... Thanks!!

So, did that solve your problem?

[m3bik]

So, did that solve your problem?

No, that response was premature... My bad. I still get emails sent to the user account after every cronjob...

[m3bik]

I've started a new topic as my plan to fix this has changed...

See - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7223188