From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 13 16:15:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01000 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:15:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ntserver.sohopros.com (mail.sohopros.com [209.196.67.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00992 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:15:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elmore@sohopros.com) From: elmore@sohopros.com Received: from fwasc42-107.flash.net by ntserver.sohopros.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1457.7) id 34X98M7Z; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:15:20 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:08:33 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Student To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /etc/crontab Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In /etc/crontab what do this mean? 2>&1 | mail root I know that | mail root means mail something to root but I don't know what the 2>&1 means. Thanks ---------------------------------- E-Mail: elmore@sohopros.com Date: 13-Jul-98 Time: 18:08:33 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message