[Ilugc] difference between interactive and background cron script

Raja Subramanian rajasuperman at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 19:36:26 IST 2008


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatachalam at gmail.com> wrote:
> cron(8) cannot use STDIO, STDOUT or STDERR. All point to /dev/null.

By default, cron saves anything written to stdout and stderr, and emails
it to the cronjob owner.

- Raja


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