The information Nick has in his reply is a good overview of the output from a given command when run in cron (especially about paying attention to the different output between stdout and stderr). I just want to correct one point on what Nick said about running sub-shells in cron:
> Now I think about it I don't think you can put sub-shells in a > cron-tab. You would need to make a little script to launch gip, > with its options and piped output, and launch that script via > cron. You *can* run sub-shells in a crontab entry. I do it for a lot of the cron entries I use on a regular basis. So doing something like the following crontab entry would work: 0 */2 * * * get_iplayer --pvr >> /var/log/GiP/$(date +%F)_pvr-log 2>&1 I hope that clarifies that point and helps. Regards, David _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
