Comments on: Sending Email Alerts Through Cron http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/sending-email-alerts-through-cron/ Helping you Learn Linux Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jordan http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/sending-email-alerts-through-cron/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Jordan Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:19:50 +0000 http://www.nixtutor.com/?p=996#comment-773 @Thomas: "2>&1" tells the shell to redirect standard error to standard output. Without it, we would still get e-mails if the script printed anything on standard error. Check out "Redirection" under the sh(1) man page (run "man 1 sh") or google "shell i/o redirection" for more info. @Thomas:
“2>&1″ tells the shell to redirect standard error to standard output. Without it, we would still get e-mails if the script printed anything on standard error.

Check out “Redirection” under the sh(1) man page (run “man 1 sh”) or google “shell i/o redirection” for more info.

]]> By: Thomas http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/sending-email-alerts-through-cron/comment-page-1/#comment-707 Thomas Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:17:15 +0000 http://www.nixtutor.com/?p=996#comment-707 What does "2>&1" mean in "script.sh >/dev/null 2>&1"? What does “2>&1″ mean in “script.sh >/dev/null 2>&1″?

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