From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 12:24:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809FD14CD0 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 12:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12575; Mon, 17 May 1999 12:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:24:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Roelof Osinga Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: output in crontab In-Reply-To: <373B8CBE.22E48651@eboa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 May 1999, 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? Go look at /etc/crontab for a hint. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message