From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 18 13:26:44 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 8D63915079 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 13:26:31 -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 WAA15738; Tue, 18 May 1999 22:26:22 +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 WAA27613; Tue, 18 May 1999 22:25:45 +0200 Message-ID: <3741CD79.5E7FC872@eboa.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 22:28:41 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: Dan Nelson , "Andy V. Oleynik" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: output in crontab References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > 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. :-/ Such is the nature of a quote. Which is why a pointer to the context was provided. One needs only to look it up 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