Cron Jobs

UNIX Solaris
1

whats up,

Have some questions about cron jobs, I am fairly new to the unix os.

My cronjob sends all output to my mail, does anyone know how to redirect output to come out on the screen???

Thanks......

2

In short you cannot, Cron is not attached to a terminal.

3

Thanks for the reponse,

So theres no way to, lets just say, spit out the date every 15 minutes to your screen??

I think crontab would look something like this:

15,30,45,60 * * * * echo `date'

4

nope, not like that. [btw, you have to have matching ticks].

what you can do is redirect the output to a file and 'tail -f' a file in window:

15,30,45,60 * * * * echo `date` > /tmp/dateFile 2>&1

and in a shell:
tail -f /tmp/dateFile

5

> /dev/null 2 >&1

6

.... and how exactly will this help the OP?

7

Hmm....

(edit: Linux box here..... will test on a Sun box tomorrow)

$ tty
/dev/pts/2
$ crontab -l
* * * * * echo "Hello" > /dev/pts/2
$ Hello

It's crude and obviously the tty would be variable.

Cheers
ZB