Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:03:04 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: output in crontab Message-ID: <19990514170304.B1367@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <373B8CBE.22E48651@eboa.com> References: <373B8CBE.22E48651@eboa.com>
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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. Which manpage is this? FreeBSD *can* mail output, and does by default if any output is generated and not redirected elsewhere. I suspect it is updating the file, but not where you expect it to be, unless something has gone very wrong. Try doing something like $ find / -name stamp -mtime -1 -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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