[Discuss] cron question

Ronald Schouten ron at atomeo.com
Fri Apr 18 17:04:11 PDT 2008


Corrections to last email so it reads half intelligently...

On 18/04/2008, Ronald Schouten <ron at atomeo.com> wrote:
> I see.
>
>  Assuming that Ubuntu's System Log Viewer (GUI tool for reading logs) works
>  correctly, I have not received any messages from cron.
>
>  No news is good news?
>
>
>  Ron
>
>  On 18/04/2008, Steven Kurylo <sk at infinitepigeons.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Ronald Schouten <ron at atomeo.com> wrote:
>  >  > Where should I be looking for cron output? syslog is only telling me
>  >  >  that the command was executed.
>  >
>  >
>  > It will try to mail it to the user who is running the command.  So
>  >  that depends on how you've setup your mail system.  On the terminal
>  >  you can try typing "mail".
>  >
>  >  You can also change the line in crontab to redirect its output to a file.
>  >
>  >  --
>  >
>  > Steven Kurylo
>  >
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