> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 18 August 2004 17:19
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> > > Sent: 18 August 2004 16:54
> >
> > > > > > 18 17 * * * pwd >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> > > > > > 19 17 * * * ls >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> > > > > > 20 17 * * * ls -l /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> > > > > > 21 17 * * * /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> >
> > > 19 17 * * * ls >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> > > 20 17 * * * ls -l /tmp/myscript >> /tmp/debug.log 2>&1
> >
> > I haven't been following, so PMFBI, but can I just point
> out that it may
> > well be necessary that the 2>&1 should precede the >>
> /tmp/debug.log if you
> > want stderr to actually end up in the log file....
>
> Nope, that part was correct. If you put 2>&1 before the >>
> redirection,
> stderr will end up on stdout. See the sh and bash manpages.
My bad. GOK how I managed to misremember that, but I was sooo certain
that I'd had to painfully discover that they needed to be the other way
round myself once. Guess I must have discovered it the way round you've got
it, after all. I just tested redirection under cmd.exe and even that
behaves the same way, so I didn't even get it from M$-world. Pardon my
confabulation.
> > BTW, "uname -a; pwd; set; export" might be a good
> diagnostic command to
> > add as a cron job.... isn't this almost certainly a
> > wrong-user-executing-the-job problem?
>
> Huh? "uname -a" should only be useful if there's more than
> one Cygwin
> version on the machine -- otherwise, the output should be
> identical for
> all users. "pwd" is already there. I don't see how "set;export;" is
> relevant at all, frankly... Did you, by chance, mean "id" instead?
I meant "id" rather than uname, yes. As for "set; export", I don't see
how you can consider the execution environment to _not_ be relevant; it's
full of useful and even vital diagnostic information, such as $PATH, to name
but one....
cheers,
DaveK
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