Re: Restarting cron after crontab update
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 10:31:38 -0500
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> > In which event cron will send a complaining email to the appropriate
> > user. Since Mr. Price hasn't mentioned any such emails, I
> > conjecture he is not monitoring his emails in /var/mail, and
> > probably should be.
>
> The redirections >/dev/null 2>&1 are discarding all the output, so
> there is nothing to be sent to his email.
Doh! Of course. Well, removing those redirections might give a useful
diagnostic.
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