Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:Maurits van Rees wrote:On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest:You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail with details gets mailed to root. Okay. Interesting. Was there a question I missed?Did you know that output of a no shell background job is mailed to you? I didn't. That's why I posted it. Should all posts be questions?No. But reading the cron manpage would have been prudent."When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab"
Damn, he got me again... Prudent is the word.