[Gllug] crontab

[Stig Brautaset]

On Jul 04 2003, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Stig Brautaset writes:
> 
> >4,14,24,34,44,54 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail 2>&1 > /dev/null 
> 
> Nope. This will do the exact opposite of what you want. 

Doh. Typo on my part.

> >[1] certainly sh-type -- don't know for csh etc.
> 
> What csh does doesn't really matter. Cron will always use /bin/sh,
> unless you explicitly override it in the crontab, and no one in
> their right mind would do that...

For that specific use, that might be true. I was just covering my arse
in case someone wanted to redirect stderr to stdout on the commandline.

Stig
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