John Mort wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Mark Donoghue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shouldn't that dollar-sign in the cron command be an ampersand? > > Looks like that was the problem, I had no mail waiting for me on this > issue this morning. Thanks!
Yes, because you have successfully redirected your standard error stream to /dev/null :-). The important question is: did your script run successfully? I'm betting no, unless you're using a much smarter "cron" than I am. It's generally a good idea to let cron job output (at least standard error) fall through to e-mail - this way you have a last ditch indicator that there was a problem. If your job is very noisy (i.e. writes lots of stuff that you don't care about to stdout & stderr), your best bet is to fix it so that it's not. Just my 2 cents... > > -- > John D. Mort > http://john.mort.net > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing > Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way > May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using > Linux > Jun 4 - TBD > Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. - Thomas Paine ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
