Re: crontab problem with stdout

birre <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe you redirect stdout in your crontab entry.

Just try:
(w3m -dump http://somepage | process >>final.result) 2>> final.errors


Following another suggestion the crontab entry works if
I put a grep command in place of process above. However
it does not work for my program which reads from
stdin, looks for the appropriate lines, and writes them
to stdout. The command works when I execute it from
the command line, but it does not work when it is
a crontab entry.

I am at a loss.

.

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