Unwanted emails from cronjob

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Hi,
I am desperately trying to prevent cron.daily to send me emails (tellong me everything’s OK:)). I have three openSuse 11.3 running; two do that, not the third. I’m clueless.
Thanks,
JD

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You did not tell us, what programs are run by cron. When the program as run by cron produces some output to <stdout> you (or some user, set to receive system mail) will get a mail. You can stop this by redirecting any output to /dev/null.

Note: the other two systems might produce mails as well, but they could go to another user (root ?).

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Thanks, I’ll check this out. Logrotate is the script sending emails (to root, aka me in all cases).

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It worked.
In /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
#/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf 2>&1 | tee $TMPF
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf > /root/logrotate.res 2>&1 | tee $TMPF