Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

On 22/08/14 22:53, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:23:37AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Running up-to-date Wheezy. >> >> I have a script, simplified like this: >> >> - >> #!/bin/bash >> DEBUG=1 >> >> OUT=/dev/null >> >> if [

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

On 22/08/14 18:02, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 22/08/14 15:57, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> Cron task is invoked from a simple crontab entry: # /home/tony/crontab -- crontab for user tony MAILTO=t...@vanderhoff.org SHELL=/bin/sh

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

Hi On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:23:37AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > Running up-to-date Wheezy. > > I have a script, simplified like this: > > - > #!/bin/bash > DEBUG=1 > > OUT=/dev/null > > if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then > OUT=/dev/stdout > fi > > ech

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 22/08/14 15:57, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >>> Cron task is invoked from a simple crontab entry: >>> # /home/tony/crontab -- crontab for user tony >>> MAILTO=t...@vanderhoff.org >>> SHELL=/bin/sh >>> >>> * * * * * /home/tony/scripts/te

Fwd: Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

sorry - wrong button :( Original Message Subject: Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:58:20 +0200 From: Tony van der Hoff To: Sven Hartge On 22/08/14 15:57, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Cron task is

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Cron task is invoked from a simple crontab entry: > # /home/tony/crontab -- crontab for user tony > MAILTO=t...@vanderhoff.org > SHELL=/bin/sh > > * * * * * /home/tony/scripts/test > tony@tony-fr:~$ ls -al /dev/stdout > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 21 17:30 /d

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

On 22/08/14 11:35, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Running up-to-date Wheezy. > >> I have a script, simplified like this: > >> - >> #!/bin/bash >> DEBUG=1 > >> OUT=/dev/null > >> if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then >>OUT=/dev/stdout >> fi > >> ech

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Running up-to-date Wheezy. > I have a script, simplified like this: > - > #!/bin/bash > DEBUG=1 > OUT=/dev/null > if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then >OUT=/dev/stdout > fi > echo hello > $OUT > - > This works f

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

Maybe, because crond is running as root, try put this lines in your script ls -l /proc/self/fd/1 ls -l /dev/stdout please, you can tell us, how you scheduled the script in crond? Thanks 2014-08-22 11:23 GMT+02:00 Tony van der Hoff : > Hi, > > Running up-to-date Wheezy. > > I have a script, sim

writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

Hi, Running up-to-date Wheezy. I have a script, simplified like this: - #!/bin/bash DEBUG=1 OUT=/dev/null if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then OUT=/dev/stdout fi echo hello > $OUT - This works fine when invoked from the command line, but w