{"id":3381,"date":"2016-01-15T08:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T08:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2021-02-06T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T10:16:41","slug":"how-to-change-cron-tab-email-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-change-cron-tab-email-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change cron tab email settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default all cron tab emails are sent to root user in Linux, But if you want send those emails to particular user this can be done by two methods.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A cron tab file contains instructions to the cron daemon, It gets active every minute to check all stored crontabs to see if it should be run in the current minute. When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab.<\/p>\n<h3>Default crontab configuration file settings.<\/h3>\n<p>Now open crontab configuration file using your favorite editor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">nano \/etc\/crontab<\/pre>\n<h3>Change Crontab email alert id using MAILTO option.<\/h3>\n<p>Now I want to receive all email alerts on cppl@cpanelplesk.com. Then we just replace root id with new id in<strong> \u201c\/etc\/crontab\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">SHELL=\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\nPATH=\/sbin:\/bin:\/usr\/sbin:\/usr\/bin\r\n\r\nMAILTO=cppl@cpanelplesk.com\r\n\r\nHOME=\/\r\n\r\n# For details see man 4 crontabs\r\n\r\n# Example of job definition:\r\n\r\n# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 .------------- hour (0 - 23)\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 |\u00a0 .---------- day of month (1 - 31)\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri$\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\r\n\r\n# *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 * user-name command to be executed<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Change Crontab email alert id using \u201c.forward\u201d file.<\/h3>\n<p>If we want to receive all the emails to cppl@cpanelplesk.com , we can do it by just creating a new file called .forward under \u201c\/root\u201d and add the\u00a0cppl@cpanelplesk.com email id.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">nano .forward<\/pre>\n<h3>How to stop particular cronjob mails.<\/h3>\n<p>If you run the cron every 5 mins and you will be getting email alert frequently and you want to stop\/ban that cronjob mails. just add this line at end of the cronjob <strong>\u201c&gt;\/dev\/null 2&gt;&amp;1\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">0 4 * * * \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/bin\/backup\r\n\r\n0 3 * * * \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/scripts\/cpbackup\r\n\r\n12 2 * * 0 \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/bin\/cloudflare_update.sh &gt;\/dev\/null 2&gt;&amp;1<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>We haven\u2019t get any mail alert of last cronjob.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0How to stop\/ban all cronjob mails.<\/h3>\n<p>If MAILTO is defined empty <strong>(MAILTO=&#8221;&#8221;)<\/strong>, no mail will be sent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">SHELL=\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\nPATH=\/sbin:\/bin:\/usr\/sbin:\/usr\/bin\r\n\r\nMAILTO= \"\"\r\n\r\nHOME=\/\r\n\r\n# For details see man 4 crontabs\r\n\r\n# Example of job definition:\r\n\r\n# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 .------------- hour (0 - 23)\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 |\u00a0 .---------- day of month (1 - 31)\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue\r\n,wed,thu,fri$\r\n\r\n# |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\u00a0 |\r\n\r\n# *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 * user-name command to be executed<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Done!!<\/p>\n<p>Go through this link to get more details about <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-install-crontab-in-centosrhel-765\/\">Cronjobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default all cron tab emails are sent to root user in Linux, But if you want send those emails to particular user this can be done by two methods. 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