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... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
