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# Disabling e-mail notifications from cron jobs

> Discover how to stop cron job email notifications by redirecting output to /dev/null.

This article demonstrates how to stop receiving e-mail notifications from cron jobs.

By default, when a cron job is run, cron sends e-mail notifications to the user account. To disable e-mail notifications, append **> /dev/null 2>&1** to the command in the cron job. This redirects all output from the cron job to the */dev/null* device. For example, the following cron job does not send e-mail notifications:

```
15 * * * Sun     ${HOME}/bigtask.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
```

To resume receiving e-mail notifications from cron jobs, simply remove **> /dev/null 2>&1** from the command.

## Related articles

* [Cron jobs](/docs/cron-jobs)

* [Cron jobs reset to 15-minute intervals](/docs/cron-jobs-reset-to-15-minute-intervals)