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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 14:49:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com>, "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: output in crontab
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171449260.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990517144826.A16668@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Dan Nelson wrote:

> 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.

I hate it when they take it out of context. :-/

Doug White                               
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