[Discuss] cron question

Steven Kurylo sk at infinitepigeons.org
Fri Apr 18 17:31:21 PDT 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Ronald Schouten <ron at atomeo.com> wrote:
> I see.
>
>  Assuming the Ubuntu's System Log Viewer (GUI tool for reading logs) I
>  have not received and messages from cron.
>
>  No news is good news?

It wouldn't show up in a log file.  I don't know how ubuntu configures
a mail system by default (Maybe it doesn't?) so you wouldn't get any
messages.  You'd have to redirect the output to a file.  "command &>
/tmp/output.log "
-- 
Steven Kurylo


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