[NTLUG:Discuss] protecting /dev/null from miswritten redirects.

[Patrick R. Michaud]

Slightly off-topic, but...

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:49:06PM -0600, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> 
> whereby I issue the following command instead:
> 
> echo '40 * * * * /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp \
> 2>&1> /dev/null' > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/vpopmail

You really should use crontab(1) to modify the crontab rather than overwriting
the file directly:

echo '40 * * * * /home/vpopmail/bin/clearopensmtp 2>&1 >/dev/null' |
   crontab -u vpopmail -


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