On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Vidiot wrote:
->Excuse me, but how is cron supposed to display something on the screen?
->It isn't attached to any terminals, so anything to stdout/stderr goes into
->the bit bucket. To see the results of stderr/stdout, one has to tell cron
->what to do with it. That is why the uptime line's output was piped into mail.
->You could send the output into a file, if you so desired.
**** Ah, we're getting somhere now. Your answer is logical when you know
the details, but with the meager info in man cron & crontab it's not that
obvious. Thanks for the feedback on that...but maybe you could've added
some on how to get crontab to execute the commands?
Zoki.
Mailed with Linux and Pine.
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