Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:10:07 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Subject: Re: output in crontab Message-ID: <373BBE3E.520F23BA@prime.net.ua> References: <373B8CBE.22E48651@eboa.com>
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I'm confused.
CRON(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
CRON(8)
NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron [-x debugflag[,...]]
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will
return im-
mediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
[..]
minute. When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner
of
the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment
variable in
the crontab, if such exists).
[..]
Roelof Osinga wrote:
> 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
>
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