On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Cory Daehn wrote:
> the end of it to catch the output. the 2>&1 has to do with the process
> going into the background instead of running in the foreground (I
> think).
no, 2>&1 is to redirect stderr to stdout (which in turn is redirected
to /dev/null). backgrounding is a standalone '&', but you don't really
want that in a crontab.
