From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 14 13: 2: 3 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 A809B14E71 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 13:02:01 -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 WAA22254; Fri, 14 May 1999 22:01:59 +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 WAA14666; Fri, 14 May 1999 22:01:54 +0200 Message-ID: <373C81D2.E60B4E25@eboa.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:04:34 +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: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: output in crontab References: <373B8CBE.22E48651@eboa.com> <19990514170304.B1367@scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Which manpage is this? FreeBSD *can* mail output, and does by default if > any output is generated and not redirected elsewhere. forseti:~/www$ man 5 crontab | tail Command output is mailed to the crontab owner (BSD can't do this), can be mailed to a person other than the crontab owner (SysV can't do this), or the feature can be turned off and no mail will be sent at all (SysV can't do this either). AUTHORS Paul Vixie BSD January 24, 1994 3 forseti:~/www$ > 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 Tx. It was exactly where I expected it to be, but I myself wasn't . 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