How To Prevent Getting Email When Cron Job Runs?

[greenworld]

Hello,

I have run couple of cron jobs, one for every 4 hours, one every 12 hours or so,

now I get email everytime the cron job is run, I want to prevent that,

 

I did read some post on the same issue here, that I can run another cron job like the following to prevent that :

 

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

 

but what should I replace with "my-script.php" ?

 

Thanks for help.

[TCH-Andy]

What does your current cron job look like ? What are you trying to do ?

 

Basically, you just need to add the " > /dev/null" onto the end of the cron job command

[greenworld]

thanks for reply,

 

I have a autoresponder and there are 5 files that has to be run as cron job, and now working fine,

this is one the cron job:

 

0 */12 8 * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/myId/public_html/scriptFolder/cron_peiodic.php

1- Now do you mean I should put " > /dev/null" at the end of every one of them?

 

like this:

0 */12 8 * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/myId/public_html/scriptFolder/cron_peiodic.php > /dev/null

 

I would like to ask about the other post that I had about running a cron job, and your reply:

 

Why don't you get the autoresponder to be triggered by the email (rather than running it as a cron job). Then it would only run when you got an email - rather than every 5 mins. Likely to be much better on server load.

 

2- I appreciate if you give me more details on how to do it or any tutorial around.

 

thanks

Edited February 24, 2006 by greenworld

[TCH-Bruce]

1. Every one that you are receiving email from, yes.

 

2. That would depend on the autoresponder being used. Take a look at hotscripts.com to find one that works off the email.

 

The only auto responder TCH has is the one included in cPanel. It works off the email and sends an automated reply based on how it is set up.