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How to Disable Daily "anacrontab" Mail Alerts

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64

Goal:

The goal of this article is to disable all mail alerts sent by "anacrontab" service daily.

Example Email:

Message-Id: <202009290809.08T89s9A241818@localhost.oraclevcn.com>
From: Anacron <root@localhost.oraclevcn.com>
To: root@localhost.oraclevcn.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on localhost

/etc/cron.daily/0logwatch:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ################### Logwatch 7.4.0 (03/01/11) ####################
  Processing Initiated: Tue Sep 29 03:06:03 2020
  Date Range Processed: yesterday
  ( 2020-Sep-28 )
  Period is day.
  Detail Level of Output: 0
  Type of Output/Format: stdout / text
  Logfiles for Host: localhost
 ##################################################################

Solution:

Edit file /etc/anacrontab

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