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Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:20:18 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: 2 cron problems and 1 solution on XP
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Mike Dieter wrote:

> Is there a way to suppress CRON MAILING ME from 'mature' scripts where I
> think I know what cron will say and I don't care?

In addition to what Eric said (lose the '&' at the end), you can use
MAILTO="" to tell cron not to send any mail on failure.  "man 5 crontab"
should be enlightening.

Brian

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