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How to disable e-mail notifications from a specific cron job

March 3, 2018 cialu Technology

If you manage servers and use a lot the useful cron command, it can happen that you’ll find your e-mail spam folder full of messages from cron. So, let me explain to you how to prevent this case and how to disable e-mail notifications from a specific cron job. No option in server control panel. Let’s redirect the output[…]

Stop Nano. How to edit Crontab using Vim

February 7, 2018 cialu Technology

If you use Vim as every-day text editor on your *nix system, you could find an annoying behaviour in editing Crontab. Everytime you use the crontab command, you’re pushed into the Nano editor and you forced to use it. Modify your shell configuration file to get Vim as Crontab editor The solution is simple, you only need to update[…]