On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Stuart Clark wrote: > I recently had a Linux exam > > One of the questions was > > Make a cron job print the message "hello" to stdout at 4:15 am every > day. > > So I added this line to /etc/crontab > > 15 04 * * * root /bin/echo "hello" > > > Is this the right answer? > > The reason why I ask is because I think of stdout as being the screen > > If I put > > 01 * * * * root /bin/echo "hello" > > into /etc/crontab I don't see the work hello on the screen every minute.
that appears to be a *very* badly-worded question since, when you submit a cron job, it's not clear *what* stdout corresponds to. if you knew where you were going to be logged in, you could run a command and add the redirection ... > /dev/tty1, or whatever your tty port is. that would definitely work. other than that, i'd have to say your answer was acceptable, since i don't see any other way of doing it that makes the idea of "stdout" meaningful. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
