Re: creating and logging a daily cron job
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> 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.
this doesn't seem to be true.... the job runs and produces output and
root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I
don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from all my
crontab jobs...
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