Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] cron.hourly

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have power to check the original file on my cobalt, but I would
assume it's the wrong syntax. the redirection to /dev/null should look
like this:
>/dev/null 2>&1

I believe I didn't see the trailing 1 in your quote

  Best regards,
     shimi [mailto:shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]


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On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Alex Thom wrote:

> I've been getting the following in emails from Cron Daemon:
> 
> /etc/cron.hourly/cron: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
> /etc/cron.hourly/cron: /etc/cron.hourly/cron: line 3: `killall -9 named
> >/dev/null 2>&'
> 
> I tried modifying /etc/cron.hourly/cron (removing the >&), and then
> running
> it.  This gave an error, and deleted the file.
> 
> Does anyone know what the problem is (was), or have a copy of the
> cron.hourly/cron file I can use as a replacement (I know I should've
> backed it up before editing it, but I wasn't expecting the file to delete
> itself)?
> 
> Alex Thom
> 
> 
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