> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Frisvold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Redirecting output
> 
> 
> Is there a way to redirect all the output (anything printed by the
> program itself and any error output) back into the program so the
> program can handle it?
> 
> I'd like to be able to redirect it to itself so if there are 
> any errors
> or unexpected output during a cron job, it'll all get mailed to me...
> 
> Make sense?

cron will mail you the standard output of the command. To get the errors to,
you normally just dup stderr onto stdout:

   myscript 2>&1

I don't know what you mean by "redirect it to itself"

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