From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 14:50:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C7914DC3 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15550; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:49:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:49:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dan Nelson Cc: Roelof Osinga , "Andy V. Oleynik" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: output in crontab In-Reply-To: <19990517144826.A16668@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. :-/ Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message