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Re: cron jobs + (some?) output



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"

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