NetBox housekeeping cron job logs in email

[ShreyasSurendra]

I'm trying to prevent the output of the housekeeping cron job to be sent via email.

Is there a setting that would allow NetBox to handle this? If not, I think one of the ways to prevent email is to redirect the output to a log file, but would like to get some advice on the best/standard approach to handle this.

Output of cron job:
/etc/cron.daily/netbox-housekeeping:

[] Clearing expired authentication sessions
Sessions cleared.
[] Checking for expired changelog records
Deleting 14453 expired records... Done.
[] Checking for expired jobresult records
No expired records found.
[] Checking for latest release
Skipping: RELEASE_CHECK_URL not set
Finished.

[mtinberg]

Cron configuration is not really within the scope of Netbox itself, it's a system service that many things use (see man 5 crontab for the full documentation), but one technique I use when I don't want to get the default reporting emails with the script output is to pipe to /usr/bin/logger to convert the output to syslog messages eg.

#Ansible: Netbox daily housekeeping
@daily netbox /opt/netbox/current/venv-py3/bin/python /opt/netbox/current/netbox/manage.py housekeeping | /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t netbox-housekeeping 2>&1

that keeps my inbox smaller and if I do need to look a the output of a historical run of the script, I can get it from the logs with the normal retention rules that apply there.

[candlerb]

Another option is to use cronic which captures the stdout, and only forwards it if the script's exit code is non-zero.

[larsen0815]

Another option is to use less verbose output (I assume errors would still be printed out).
sed -i 's:\(/opt/netbox/netbox/manage.py housekeeping\):\1 -v 0:' /opt/netbox/contrib/netbox-housekeeping.sh