On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Maurits van Rees wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >>Hi Debian! > >> > >>I found out something that was of interest: > > > > > > You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A > > mail with details gets mailed to root. Okay. Interesting. Was there a > > question I missed? > > > > Did you know that output of a no shell background job is mailed to you? > I didn't. That's why I posted it. Should all posts be questions?
No. But reading the cron manpage would have been prudent. "When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab" -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "they love our milk and honey, but preach about another way of living" Merle Haggard, "The Fighting Side Of Me"
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