12 Mar
2002
12 Mar
'02
11:38 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:29:43AM +0000, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Interesting! There is a series of log files started called panic, which list a panic because exim.conf file can't be opened, each time at exactly when my backup is set to run.
It could well be that this is cancelling the entire cron job including your backup.
I haven't yet got exim set up correctly
running and haven't had time to look at it.
perhaps disable it altogether??
I'll just blindly trust you on the "2>&1" thing.....)
Sorry - this means "redirect the standard error output (2) to the same place that standard output (1) goes"
- so it will send both normal output and error output from the program to the file you specified.