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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:30:36 -0500
From:      Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>
To:        Leon <leonmk@optonline.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crontab file
Message-ID:  <1104431436.1669.10.camel@chaucer>
In-Reply-To: <001601c4ee93$330008e0$a23db918@D1TWQX41>
References:  <001601c4ee93$330008e0$a23db918@D1TWQX41>

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On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 12:15, Leon wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I edited "crontab" file to update my ports every day at certain time.
> But , when time comes, I do not see any information on the screen, that something was updated.
> Should the system sow any information about update or not?
> If not, how can I check If ports was updated?
> 
> Thanks,
> Leon.
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If the crontab job writes to stdout or stderr, this will be mailed back
to you.  There is no immediate output on the screen from a crontab job. 
Check your mail - look in /var/mail/your-user-id or /var/mail/root if
you don't have a mail client running.



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