We receive hundreds of mails every day from the cron deamon to root@company.com. How can I stop that? Those mails refer to custom cron jobs set up by us - as well as others set up by AWS.
The mail subject looks as follows:
Cron <www-data@ip-172-12-34-56> [ -x /usr/share/awstats/tools/update.sh ] && /usr/share/awstats/tools/date.sh
I read this is default behavior but I can't find a way to switch it off.
Neither crontab -l
nor sudo crontab -l
contains a MAILTO
directive or anything other than regular cron job timings.
> cat vim /etc/crontab cat: vim: No such file or directory
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )