Cron echos each command

From: Robert (nospam_robert_schmidli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/16/03 

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:57:59 +1000

I have vixie-cron installed on my Slackware 9.0 system. I got rid of dcron
(the default slackware cron) because it did not implement cron.deny etc. I
installed vixie-cron from red hat 9.0 source and compiled it. Everything is
fine except whenever a cron job runs it mails me the command names - eg:

/etc/cron.daily/chkroot:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

/etc/cron.daily/logwatch:

/etc/cron.daily/quota:

/etc/cron.daily/settime:

/etc/cron.daily/slocate:

This is a real nuisance if you run cron.hourly - I get send these messages
every hour!

One solution is to send the output to /dev/null (eg,. below) but then none
of the output is sent to me (ie the output of the command - such as error
messages).

1 * * * * root /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/run-parts
/etc/cron.hourly > /dev/null

I have had cron running on other distros without giving this problem.

Any clues?

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