From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 12:49:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35CC71521C for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 12:49:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA17048; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:48:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:48:26 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Doug White Cc: Roelof Osinga , "Andy V. Oleynik" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: output in crontab Message-ID: <19990517144826.A16668@dan.emsphone.com> References: <373C22D2.E3ED7DF2@eboa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Doug White" on Mon May 17 12:25:09 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 17), Doug White said: > On Fri, 14 May 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > Try 'man 5 crontab'. At the end you'll find: > > > > 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). > > This is Just Wrong. I get output mailed to me daily from upset CVSups. This paragraph is comparing classic BSD cron, SysV cron, and Vixie cron. FreeBSD uses Vixie's cron. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message