On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:37:00AM -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > The background: I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that backs up to a > remote server. It was failing and generating stderr messages, but for some > reason Slackware's "run-parts" script executes the scripts in the cron > directories like this: > > $SCRIPT 2>&1 > > so all the "echo foo 1>&2" in the world won't generate any stderr. It was > months before I noticed something was wrong. Was lucky to catch it! > > I'm still a Slackware fan but this is apparently broken!
This is fairly standard: basically stuff that is sent to stdout is usually mailed to the owner of the cronjon. So question: do you have root's mail redirected anywhere (i.e., /etc/aliases: root:[EMAIL PROTECTED] )? - Rob .
