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Re: Cron jobs - redirecting output question
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Graham Percival |
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Re: Cron jobs - redirecting output question |
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Sun, 3 Feb 2013 23:58:06 -0800 |
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 03:10:38PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> I understand that this means that all output is sent to the null
> device - i.e. discarded. Is there any reason not to send it to a
> file, to aid debugging should there be any problems? My thinking
> would be that the filename wouldn't change, so it would be
> over-written each time the script is run.
No clue, but go ahead and experiment. Please check it once a day
or at the beginning just to make sure that it is indeed
overwriting the same file and not chewing up disk space, since we
don't own the server. But I don't anticipate any problems with
it.
Cheers,
- Graham