How to stop mail from cron

[thomas.e.lowe]

In article <147 at jma.UUCP> max at jma.UUCP (Max Heffler @ Landmark Graphics) writes:
>I have a cron entry with output redirected to /dev/null.
>I still get the output, which was echoed from a script,
>sent to me as mail.  How do I shut it up?

Often times information is sent to stderr in addition to stdout.
Your cron entry should look something like:

0 3 * * * command > /dev/null 2>&1

The 2>&1 while redirect the stderr to /dev/null also.

If you already have this in your script, perhaps the command 
itself mails the output from inside.
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