[lug] cron question

[Michael Wegener]

Well, now that would explain it. I did not know that "echo" in a script would act
differently than "echo" on the command line.

Thanks everyone

--M

Calvin Dodge wrote:

> Walter Pienciak wrote:
> >
> > Do you have a thing like > /dev/null 2>&1 at the end of your
> > cron entry?  Because that would be sending all your STDOUT and
> > STDERR output to the bit bucket . . .
>
> FWIW, I just tested using echo in cron with the following line in my personal
> crontab (crontab -e):
>
> 54 17 * * * /bin/echo hello
>
> It worked just fine, and sent that "hello" in a mail to me.
>
> Calvin
>
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