KCron and Streamripper

[Mark Haney]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> 
>> At the beginning of the script I would add #!/bin/bash (or insert your
>> choice of shell here).
> 
> Good catch - I believe the default is dash.
>> It also might not be a bad idea to make the cron line look like this:
>>
>> 0 0 * * 4     /home/bb/KSFR/ksfr_script >> /home/bb/KSFR/ksfr.log > 2>&1
>>
>> (Watch for line breaks, that should all be one line)
>>
>> to dump the potential error to a log file, since it looks like the
>> system is having a problem but not logging it to syslog.
> 
> Any output from cron is supposed to be emailed (to the owner of the crontab
> or to a location specified in the crontab), but if you don't have a local
> mail server, of course it doesn't get sent anywhere...

It's supposed to, true, but it might just be hanging in the mail spool 
of that user account (user at localhost).

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