Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:04:34 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: output in crontab Message-ID: <373C81D2.E60B4E25@eboa.com> References: <373B8CBE.22E48651@eboa.com> <19990514170304.B1367@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
> Which manpage is this? FreeBSD *can* mail output, and does by default if
> any output is generated and not redirected elsewhere.
forseti:~/www$ man 5 crontab | tail
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).
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Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
BSD January 24, 1994 3
forseti:~/www$
> I suspect it is updating the file, but not where you expect it to be,
> unless something has gone very wrong. Try doing something like
>
> $ find / -name stamp -mtime -1
Tx. It was exactly where I expected it to be, but I myself wasn't <g>.
Roelof
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