cron job
Nifty Fedora Mitch
niftyfedora at niftyegg.com
Tue Aug 5 22:33:57 UTC 2008
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:08:16AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 17:54 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > On 29Jul2008 22:17, Ed Kasky <ed at esson.net> wrote:
> > > At 10:06 PM Tuesday, 7/29/2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote -=>
> > >> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:05 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> > >> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:29:44PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
> > >> > The above addresses stdout as requested
> > >> > also consider stderr..
> > >> > 2 1 * * * $HOME/bin/check-calendar > /dev/null 2>&1 <
> > >> /dev/null &
> > >>
> > >> What's the final "&" for?
> > >
> > > From - http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/ch02sec20.html
> > >
> > > For background processing (With &, use to put particular command and
> > > program in background)
> > > [linux-command] &
> > >
> > > For example - $ ls / -R | wc -l &
> >
> > And pointless in a cron job line.
> > Patrick knows what it does, he's wondering why. So am I.
> > You're aware cron runs jobs when they're due, even if other jobs are not
> > yet finished?
>
> You took the words right out of my mouth :-)
>
Not sure when this sliped in.... Perhaps on my old Idris system.
Or when I was last testing it on a Wyse50 terminal.
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