crontab & stderr discovery

[ajs at hpfcla.UUCP]

> This seems to indicate that a line such as:
> 
> 1 0 * * * /bin/sh /usr/adm/script.sh 1>/usr/adm/script.log 2>&1
> 
> wastes a shell; that it could be run as:
> 
> 1 0 * * * /usr/adm/script.sh 1>/usr/adm/script.log 2>&1

Not only that, you can save another shell by running it as:

  1 0 * * * exec /usr/adm/script.sh 1>/usr/adm/script.log 2>&1

I'll be amused if there are systems on which this fails!

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
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