Re: error messages not getting logged when running script from cron

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 5:09 PM, anj patnaik <patna73@gmail.com> wrote:

> 0 20 * * * db_backup.sh 1> /dev/null 2>&1 | mail -s "backup cron" myemail@comp.com
>
> I am re-directing stderr to stdout and then sending that to email.

But you are redirecting stdout (and therefore also stderr) to
/dev/null -- therefore there is no body input to the mail command.

> I get an email nightly with that title, but no error messages.

In that case you will probably be fine if you remove "1> /dev/null"
from the command.

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