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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.