From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 13 19:36:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3116114BE7 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 19:36:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA29865 from for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 04:36:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12209 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 04:35:58 +0200 Message-ID: <373B8CBE.22E48651@eboa.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 04:38:54 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: output in crontab Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While porting some stuff from Linux I noticed that I can not redirect output from commands into a file. E.g. */3 * * * * date > stamp will not update the file. The manpage talks about BSD not being able to mail output, but fails to mention not handling output at all. What gives and, better still, how can I make this work? Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message