Solved How to get the stderr output in crontab?

[quamenzullo]

Hello everyone,


I would like to know where I can find possible error messages created by scripts that are called in crontab.

The 2>&1 at the end of the command line does not work (seems it works with bash, but I could not find an equivalent for csh).

/var/log/cron never tells a word about errors, even when there are some. I could not find any other log file that could report these errors.

Anyone knows how to do that?

Cheers,

QZ

 

[tobik@]

Output from cron jobs is mailed to the root user by default. Try running mail as root and see if their are any messages.

 

[quamenzullo]

Oh, I forgot to mention, there's no mail for root...

EDIT: I mean in root's mailbox

 

[quamenzullo]

But the crontab() you mention in the other thread I started seems to provide an answer to this question too:

# mail any output to `paul', no matter whose crontab this is
MAILTO=paul

 

[wblock@]

The csh(1) equivalent of 2>&1 is |&. This does not matter in crontab(5), because those are run by sh(1). Do not change the default shell there.