How to stop crond from sending email for all users?
Issue
- Unable to stop crond from sending emails for all the users
# cat /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
# For details see man 4 crontabs
# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * user-name command to be executed
- MAILTO="" option in /etc/crontab doesn't work for all the users to stop sending emails.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- crond daemon
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