[Linux-Anyway] Re: crond
- From: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:41:36 +0100
Sun, 14 Sep 2003 14:32:42 -0700 (PDT) scripsit Meph Istopheles:
> I found that crond wasn't set to start at boot, so I'd added
> the line to rc.local (I hope this is the right syntax):
>
> /usr/sbin/cron -f
Why put the "-f" there since it makes crond run in the foreground rather
than as a daemon?
> Does this just mean that it's taking the line from my crontab
> to ~not~ send me mail each time it starts?
crond shouldn't mail you anything unless a task in your crontab outputs
something on stdout or stderr. You can avoid that happening by appending
(without the quotes) " > /dev/null 2>&1" to all the commands you cronify.
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