SUMMARY: cron job output to BOTH email AND log file.

From: Loris Serena <Loris.Serena_at_esat.com>
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 08:32:07 EST
Guys, 

Many thanks to the over 20 people who replied.

The "tee" command is the way to go and the following is what does what I
wanted to achieve
(needed to escape the "%" sign in the date command too...)

22 13 * * * /usr/local/bin/jumbo.sh 2>&1 | tee /tmp/jumbo.log.`date
+\%Y.\%m.\%d`

Cheers

Loris



-----Original Message-----
From: Loris Serena 
Sent: 14 March 2005 12:43
To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
Subject: cron job output to BOTH email AND log file.


Hi Folks, 

I'm looking for a way to run a script via cron and get its output both to an
email to crontab user and to a logfile.

I might be wrong here, but if in my crontab I have
00 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/jumbo.sh
then I only get an email to the crontab user

and if I have
00 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/jumbo.sh > /tmp/jumbo.log.`date '+%Y.%m.%d'` then
I only get the script output dumped to the logfile.

Is there any way to get them both?

TIA

Loris





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