[RndTbl] stderr/stdout in Linux cronjobs?

[Adam Thompson]

If you've put those two lines in your crontab, they get executed as separate jobs.  Do the subscription directly in the echo command without using a variable, or put it in another script and call that script from crontab.
-Adam

On January 23, 2015 9:47:37 AM CST, Grigory Shamov <Grigory.Shamov at umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I have a weird (or stupid idk) problem. A script of mine produces
>different results when ran interactively as root, from when ran as a
>cron
>job.
>
>used=`report -i --csv 2>/dev/null | awk '/Total/ {print $4}'`
>echo $used is Total
> 
>
>The command executed says "Using config file XXX" to stderr and
>something
>useful to stdout of which I extract the value of  Total. Redirecting
>the
>barf to /dev/null. 
>
>Now as a cron job the $used is empty. I believe that cronjob would
>redirect stderr to stodut? But here it happens also for the
>subprocesses ?
>Confused..
>
>-- 
>Grigory Shamov
>
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