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Cron sending emails
Cron is sending lots and lots of emails (100+ a day it seems) to the root acount. I can't seem to figure out how to get it to stop! Sends the PHP warnings, and errors, ect.
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Probably a number of ways...
Reply 1The MAILTO="" did not work
Reply 2The MAILTO="" did not work :(
What app are you using?
Reply 3I suspect that there may be a setting somewhere in your app that adjusts the cron script (although i'm only guessing...)
Hmmm..
Reply 4When you say that you have suppressed their output, I assume you mean you have suppressed the level of reporting of your PHP app? By my understanding that should do it, but obviously not...
Maybe there is a setting in the php.ini that can further suppress them? TBH I imagine that the config is fairly stock standard Debian (v13.x = Wheezy; v12.x = Squeeze) PHP/Apache/Cron config (I just had a quick look at the LAMP appliance source and couldn't see any tweaks that might create this behaviour).
I suggest that you have a google, although TBH I just did and didn't find anything that really jumped out at me as being a solution to your issue. Sorry not much help really...
Nice workaround!
Reply 5That'll do it... Still I'm not sure why it is doing that in the first place, not ideal behaviour IMO...
You could adjust the level of PHP reporting (so it only emails re errors - which you probably want to fix). Or you could adjust the cron job itself. Google gave a link that's probably relevant (TKL is now based on Debian but Ubuntu should be close enough for the purposes of your question).
Let us know how you go and if/how you adjusted it...