Cron job keeps sending me emails - How to stop?

[Scorpion Ghost]

I'm hosted on Hostgator. Earlier today I set up a cron job for something, to run every 30 minutes. But every time it runs it keeps sending me emails. I figured it would take me 2 minutes to stop it, but to my surprise when I searched on Google and Youtube I didn't get anything (nothing I could understand how to implement anyway).

Preferably I'd like the emails to not be sent, unless there's a problem. Then I'd like to receive the email.

But if not possible, I don't care, I'd like to stop emails being sent to me when cron runs.

How can I do this?

Thanks

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

For example we have this - https://www.garron.me/en/bits/stop-cron-job-from-sending-email.html

And he says:

If you need to stop cron from sending emails, just add this to the end of the line in cronjob file.

Edit that file with crontab -e and then add this to the end of the line: > /dev/null 2>&1

Where is the end of the line in cronjob file? Where is the cronjob file? In file manager?

 

[itz_styx]

what he means is that you need to login via SSH and execute the crontab -e command to edit and then append "> /dev/null 2>&1" to each line.

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

what he means is that you need to login via SSH and execute the crontab -e command to edit and then append "> /dev/null 2>&1" to each line.

I have no idea what SSH is or how to login with it. II have no idea how to execute the crontab -e command, and, yeah. No idea how to do that. haha..

 

[itz_styx]

then maybe contact your hosting support they should be able to help you

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

then maybe contact your hosting support they should be able to help you

I'm actually doing that right now. They gotta earn their pay

Thanks

 

[itz_styx]

no problem, good luck

 

[SpoonFeeder]

I believe you added the CronJob via cPanel right?

If yes, Edit your cron job and add the following command to the end of it.

>/dev/null 2>&1

so it looks like

/public_html/yourcommand.php >/dev/null 2>&1

It should stop CRON from sending you emails.

Give it a try and update your results.

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

I believe you added the CronJob via cPanel right?

If yes, Edit your cron job and add the following command to the end of it.

>/dev/null 2>&1

so it looks like

/public_html/yourcommand.php >/dev/null 2>&1

It should stop CRON from sending you emails.

Give it a try and update your results.

Bro yeah, that was it. So simple. The guy on Hostgator support hooked me up. Stupid huh

Thanks though. That's it, that works!