How to disable cron email notifications from the command line

Introduction

There is an interface in cPanel to manage cPanel users' cron jobs, but there is no editor available in WHM to edit root cron jobs. However, both may be edited from the command line. This article provides the procedure to disable cron email notifications from the command line.

Procedure

1. Access the server's command line as the user via SSH or "Terminal."
2. Open crontab in editing mode.

   crontab -e

3. Add the following to the end of the line for which notifications should be disabled.

     > /dev/null 2>&1 

4. Save the changes and exit the editor.

Additional resources

Cron Jobs

How to edit a file on command-line