An email is sent every 15 minutes when creating a schedule backup job on VSRL

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Description

Error Message

You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root.

Resolution

To restrict sending the mail from Cron Daemon to root every 15 minutes, please perform the following workaround.

Workaround:

  1. Lon on as root.
  1. Run "crontab -e".

NOTE: vi Editor is opened by running "crontab -e".

  1. Add ">/dev/null 2>&1" to the end of "*/15 * * * * /usr/sbin/symsr -processjob -format quiet" line. (See Figure 1)

Figure 1

  1. Save. (See Figure 2)

Figure 2

Issue/Introduction

An email is sent from Cron Daemon to root every 15 minutes when creating a schedule backup job on Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition (VSRL).
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