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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: wanted: suggested features for my PD cron program
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Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 07:09:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  5 07:09:09 1987
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Summary: S5's "cron" already has those log files

> Log files!  It would be nice to be able to specify a log for cron
> itself and also a log for each program's stdout and stderr to go to.

S5R2's "cron" has a log file for "cron"; the stdout and stderr for each
command are sent to a temporary file which is mailed to the user under whose
UID the job was run, if any output is produced.  (Remember, the S5R2 "cron"
has one crontab per user, and that user can change their own crontab.)

> Another thing which would be nice is to be able to specify which shell
> to call to give the command to.

Well, the obvious choice would be the user's shell, but this wouldn't work
for accounts like "uucico".