[PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies -- UPDATE

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Larry Brigman wrote:

> Also the crontab doesn't have the same parsing capability as
> as Bash, so
> &> file
> will get an error were as
>> file 2>&1
> will get stderr and stdout to the file.

   Here's why this is so frustrating: this morning both invocations of
/etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm ran with reports mailed to my INBOX. And, I
received the mail with the log file from adding 'set -x' to the top of the
script.

   Therefore, nothing to see here. It all worked. But, that's not to conclude
tomorrow's results will be the same.

   Ah, well. Guess I need to learn to live with it.

Rich