Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 22:28:41 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: output in crontab Message-ID: <3741CD79.5E7FC872@eboa.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171449260.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > 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. :-/ Such is the nature of a quote. Which is why a pointer to the context was provided. One needs only to look it up <g> Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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