From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 5:13:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A183714C39 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 05:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:16:06 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796B0@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: 'Ben Smithurst' , Ladavac Marino Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: cron difficulties Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:10:12 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Smithurst [SMTP:ben@scientia.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 7:33 PM > To: Ladavac Marino > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: cron difficulties > > Ladavac Marino wrote: > > > A nitpick, but I see it as neccessary. The below > > explanation was wrong. > > Which particular bit? I've read your comments and my explanation > again, we > seem to be saying the same thing. [ML] Almost, except that you said that in command 2>&1 >filename stderr remains intact, whereas in fact it goes wherever stdout went before the following redirection; try this (not as root) touch /kernel >file1 2>&1 >file2 and see where the "Permission denied" went. /Marino > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message