[mythtv-users] Anyone using in crontab?

[Happy Harry]

On Dec 24, 2007 10:48 PM, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:
> you can try adding ">
> > /tmp/thiscronjob.log 2>&1" after the command in the crontab.
>
> Very confused now.
>
> After adding "> /tmp/output.log 2>&1" everything works, if I remove it
> it stops working again.  Does anyone have any idea why this is the
> case?  output.log never contains anything.
>
> I have added "/dev/null 2>&1" now to keep things tidy and everything
> works but have no idea why adding this or the above makes it work.
>
> Does anyone know why and when you need to add this type of statement
> to a cronjob entry?
>
>
> TIA
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That's a very good question. What is the _exact_ line you have in your crontab?