Re: stderr redirect order in afterboot(8)

#1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 09:21 AM

Not if you want errors to be mailed to root...

Regards,
Andreas

On 25/04/07, Charles Longeau <chl@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think there's an error in the order 2>&1 is done in the afterboot man page.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles Longeau
>
> Index: man/man8/afterboot.8
> ================================================== =================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man8/afterboot.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.117
> diff -u -p -r1.117 afterboot.8
> --- man/man8/afterboot.8 8 Apr 2007 16:32:30 -0000 1.117
> +++ man/man8/afterboot.8 24 Apr 2007 20:53:29 -0000
> @@ -533,9 +533,9 @@ the security scripts that are mailed int
> .Ic crontab -e
> and change some of the lines to read:
> .Bd -literal -offset indent
> -30 1 * * * /bin/sh /etc/daily 2>&1 > /var/log/daily.out
> -30 3 * * 6 /bin/sh /etc/weekly 2>&1 > /var/log/weekly.out
> -30 5 1 * * /bin/sh /etc/monthly 2>&1 > /var/log/monthly.out
> +30 1 * * * /bin/sh /etc/daily > /var/log/daily.out 2>&1
> +30 3 * * 6 /bin/sh /etc/weekly > /var/log/weekly.out 2>&1
> +30 5 1 * * /bin/sh /etc/monthly > /var/log/monthly.out 2>&1
> .Ed
> .Pp
> See
>
>

--
Andreas Kahari
Somewhere in the general Cambridge area, UK

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