[Techtalk] Newbie & crontab

Colleen Hatfield evilpig at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 01:32:05 EST 2004


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:43:06 +0000, Conor Daly <c.daly at met.ie> wrote:

> crontab -e
> 30 21 * * 2   Tivo-cron > /root/tivo.out 2>&1
> 
> "> /root/tivo.out" says "send standard output to /root/tivo.out" and "2>&1"
> says "send standard error output there too"

Wouldn't that be the same as this? :
Tivo-cron 2&> /root/tivo.out

- Colleen


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