cron job email customization

Question

I have a list of cronjobs where some executes daily and others execute very 15 minutes. I do want to receive an email for the ones executed daily, but wants email disabled for the ones executing every 15 minutes(or maybe receive a daily email), is there a way to do this in crontab?

Answer 1

To stop the output from being e-Mailed for a specific cron entry, redirect the output for those cron to /dev/null. Suffix your cron entry with this to redirect both STDOUT and STDERR:

> /dev/null 2>&1

While you can redirect different types of output different ways, for more advanced handling such as digests, you will need to script it.

As a side note, important notifications shouldn't be e-Mailed. Use central logging (syslog) or monitoring. (nagios)