[mythtv-users] queston to the wilsonet.com fc2 crontab

[daryl]

anders, the '2>&1' is shell syntax for redirect stderr to stdout.

regards,

daryl


anders smith wrote:

>I'm looking at my crontab entry trying to figure out what the
>different element do... especially the '2>&1' that comes in the end.
>I'm sorry if it's a silly n00b question but I'm having some problems
>with mythfilldatabase not running right (multible threads and
>balloning memory use) and would like to understand all the parts to
>correctly fix it
>
>thanks
>anders
>
>for reference here is the wilsonet.com crontab:
>### Run mythfilldatabase every night at some random time after 2:30am
>30 2 * * * sleep $(expr $RANDOM \% 14400) && mythfilldatabase >
>/var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log 2>&1
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