>>>>> David <wizza...@gmail.com> writes:
> This is something that used to work for me in older Debian releases
> (Etch and Lenny I think), but it's no longer working for me in
> Squeeze.
> Basically, I have a cron stub under /etc/cron.d, with a line like
> this:
> * * * * * root cd /tmp/ && ./test.sh &> ./test.log
[…]
> However, the log file /tmp/test.log is never created.
> Is it no longer possible to do output redirection to log files from
> within crontab scripts? Or am I meant to use a different syntax these
> days?
I guess that it may be related to the recent switch from Bash to
Dash as /bin/sh, which doesn't seem to support &>.
If that's true, then changing it to, e. g., > ./test.log 2>&1
will probably solve the problem.
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