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

[Mark Wormgoor]

Hi,

> 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

The '2>&1' redirects stderr to stdout.  And, stdout is already sent to
/var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log, so all output should end up
there.  If you are having problems, everything should be in the log.

Kind regards,

Mark
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