Re: Cron jobs - redirecting output question

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: Cron jobs - redirecting output question


> 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


Works fine - reveals a lot of errors in the make website shell script - 
about 300 similar to this:

rsync: failed to set permissions on "/[directory 
redacted]/ties-scoring-example.png": Operation not permitted (1)

Any ideas how to fix this?

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Phil Holmes