[kwlug-disc] Capturing output in scripts

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:10 AM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:

> Not what I meant.
>
> Doesn't calling it from cron as 'myscript 2>&1 >/var/log/myscript.log'
> take care of it?
>

No, because the idea is to save the output to a file, then email the output
with a proper subject, rather than the cryptic standard cron subject with
the name of the script.

The saving of the log needs to be inside the script, not from whomever is
calling it.


> What I meant was, isn't the solution found in how you call it from the
> command line? (Not from which / where the command line is.)
>
>
>
> On 14-08-22 10:41 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:33 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Is it not not two scripts, but how you call the script in the first
>>> place?
>>>
>>>
>> Called from my crontab.
>>
>
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