Preventing Cron Daemon From Sending Email

[paultwang]

If I don't want the cron daemon to send me e-mails everytime it runs my cron job, should put the e-mail as /dev/null or :blackhole: ?

[TCH-Bruce]

I would use >/dev/null

[abinidi]

You could probably also set up a forwarder that forwards to :fail: or :blackhole:

 

Then use the forwarder's address where requested by the cron job.

 

I dunno. Maybe there's some reason why that wouldn't be a good idea, but it seems to me to be an easy solution....

[TCH-Bruce]

This is how I set up all my cron jobs

 

>/usr/bin/php -q /home/my-cpanel-id/public_html/my-path/my-script.php > /dev/null

 

I'm just using PHP as an example. If there is an error during the execution I still get email in my domain default email account. But no error, no email.