From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 13 20:19:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08175 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa3-18.ix.netcom.com [206.214.137.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08169 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:19:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00873; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:18:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807140318.UAA00873@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: elmore@sohopros.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Subject: Re: /etc/crontab Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At the head to /etc/crontab, SHELL=/bin/sh This means that shell commands are sh commands. 2>&1 directs stderr output to stdin. Remember, there are 3 standard devices, stdin, stdout, stderr, corresponding to 0, 1, and, 2. See 'man sh'. There is a good chapter in The UNIX Programming Environment, Kernighan and Pike, Prentice-Hall, on standard i/o programming. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message