Hi! I am running seti from crontab on solaris 8 but every day I receive email that a process has been terminated. How to make it not to send email or how to disable email completely? 1 20 * * * cd $HOME/.seti; ./seti > /dev/null 2> /dev/null 50 7 * * 1-5 cd $HOME/.seti; ./stop > /dev/null 2> /dev/null $ cat $HOME/.seti/stop kill `ps -ef|grep seti|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'` > /dev/null 2> /dev/null Thanks.

Hi, In your seti script make sure you capture output and error messages into log file. Otherwise any standard output/error messages is mailed to the user running the script. You can disable sending mails from the system by turing off execute permission on sendmail, mailx and mail binaries, but i would prefer the first option of modifying the scripts. C

Contrary to what chinta said, it appears to me that you are capturing stdout and stderr. Just you're sending them to /dev/null rather than a file. That was going to be my suggestion, but you are already doing it. This is off the topic, but if you want to send stdout and stderr to the same place, another way is: > /dev/null 2>&1 That says to send stderr to the same place as stdout, which was already redirected to /dev/null