Re: Cron jobs - redirecting output question

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 03:10:38PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> I understand that this means that all output is sent to the null
> device - i.e. discarded.  Is there any reason not to send it to a
> file, to aid debugging should there be any problems?  My thinking
> would be that the filename wouldn't change, so it would be
> over-written each time the script is run.

No clue, but go ahead and experiment.  Please check it once a day
or at the beginning just to make sure that it is indeed
overwriting the same file and not chewing up disk space, since we
don't own the server.  But I don't anticipate any problems with
it.

Cheers,
- Graham