On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 08:30:16 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:59:38 +0100 > <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > Most probably cron will just see what you intended as a user > > name as part of the command: > > > > rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > > will run the command "rprice" on the args "/mnt..."; most of > > the time this will be a "no such file or so-and-so", sometimes > > it might lead to surprising results ;-) > > In which event cron will send a complaining email to the appropriate > user. Since Mr. Price hasn't mentioned any such emails, I conjecture he > is not monitoring his emails in /var/mail, and probably should be.
The redirections >/dev/null 2>&1 are discarding all the output, so there is nothing to be sent to his email.
