Re: [aclug-L] Crontab entry

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:19:55AM -0600, Todd_Lundstedt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> We have several crontab entries that look like this (this is AIX, but it
> should be pretty similar, eh?)...
> 
> 5 * * * * /path/command >/path/output 2>&1
> 
> I understand this will run "command" every day at 00:05, redirect the
> standard output to /path/output (ie /dev/null or some file).  The "2>"
> redirects the error output to a path similar to ">", in these cases it
> redirects to "&1".  What is "&1" representing????


It duplicates the file descripter 1 (stdout) onto file descripter
2. Therefore, both stdout and stderr get redirected to the file
/path/output. I pretty sure that's right. Do a man bash to read all about it.

By the way, the crontab entry will run at 5 minutes after each
hour. To run only at 00:05, you would need:

5 0 * * * ....


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