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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 14:48:26 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com>, "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: output in crontab
Message-ID:  <19990517144826.A16668@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171224390.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from "Doug White" on Mon May 17 12:25:09 GMT 1999
References:  <373C22D2.E3ED7DF2@eboa.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171224390.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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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.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com




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