On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: > If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie > with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's > the recommended Debian way to do so? > > I've tried > a) create $HOME/bin/backup.sh script > b) sudo ln -is $HOME/bin/backup.sh /etc/cron.daily > > and it appears to run each day. However, I can't find where std out/err > is going to - there's nothing in /var/log/syslog for example. > > Note I don't want to receive mail for all cron jobs run by the system so > I presume setting MAILTO in /etc/crontab is not the way forward. I think the standard output for jobs run out of cron.daily will typically go to root's mailbox. I suggest writing/rewriting backup.sh so that it writes its output to well-defined files, rather than relying on the behaviour of standard output/error. Dave. -- Dave Ewart davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7518, W 1.2016
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