Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:30:58 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: nicky@valuecare.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current Cron Log Message-ID: <44C73652.5030503@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <1153897405.691.10.camel@nlp> References: <1153897405.691.10.camel@nlp>
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Nicky wrote: > Hello, > > I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains > several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of errors > to stderr. > The total script runs for about 6 hours and then the the combined output > of all steps is mailed to root. > > However, is there a way to 'examine/monitor' the scripts progress. > Perhaps cron keeps a temporary/current logfile of my scripts output, > which i can look at? check /usr/sbin/periodic, it's a shell script. Also, it seems to be possible to send output to a file instead or also, see periodic.conf(5) Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9
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