On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * ch1quiz /usr/local/bin/updatehw 2>>& > $HOME/tmp.quizlog > > in /etc/crontab, and every ten minutes user ch1quiz will run > /usr/local/bin/updatehw with the output and errors appended to > tmp.quizlog in its home directory. But nothing seems to happen. What
You're only appending errors. To get both, do: /foo/updatehw &> outputfile Also, you can't use the $HOME variable in cron. Use the full pathname. Your program is probably running, but the output is getting lost.