Raymond Norton wrote:

> I tried appending  > /dev/null, but can't get it to run like it does from the command line.


Does it send an annoying email every time it runs?

If so, try adding  \; > /dev/null  2>&1  
to the end of crontab entry.  

For example:

1-59/10 * * * *  /path-to-script/scrip.sh  \; > /dev/null  2>&1

will silently run the script every 10min.