[clue] tee in cronjob

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Tue May 20 10:59:59 MDT 2014


Quentin Hartman wrote:
> I came to this same conclusion after thinking about this some more
> yesterday. It makes perfect sense that cron would buffer the output until
> the process it sees as creating it had ended. I was having a "forest for
> the trees" moment. Since the error states that create messages happen so
> far apart I was wrongly thinking of them as different invocations, even
> though I knew they weren't.

That's one of those common experiences in IT: knowing how something works and convincing yourself 
that it's doing something different.

:-)

Dave


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