On 10/16/12 9:33 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 28/9/2012 3:41 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > >> When I run simply "/usr/bin/sa-update -D", everything seems to run >> smoothly. > > As an update, I am now using the following line in /etc/cron.d/sa-update: > > 10 3 * * * root /usr/bin/sa-update -D | tee -a /var/log/sa-update.log && > /etc/init.d/amavisd condrestart > > Unfortunately nothing gets logged in sa-update.log (so I guess "| tee -a > /var/log/sa-update.log" could be left-out) but at least I get an > automatic email (by the cron system) with all the output of the above > commands, so I know what's happening. >
sa-update talks to stderr, so for the above to work, you'll need something like: /usr/bin/sa-update -D 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/sa-update.log -- Tom
