Re: How to start program in cron script?

[news.spiegl@kascada.com (Andy Spiegl)]

According to Carey Evans  <c.evans@clear.net.nz>:
> 
> To fix this, you need to stop "myprogram" from sending any output to cron.
Oh, of course!  I am so stupid.

> My recommendation would be:
> 
>     0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/myprogram >/dev/null 2>&1 &
Yes, that was it.  Now it works.  Thanks a mill!

>     0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/myprogram 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -i -t myprogram
> >/dev/null 2>&1 &
That's a nice alternative, but I found that logger doesn't quit after
myprogram is done.  What am I overlooking now?

Thanks again!
 Andy.

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