Unix Tip: DEBUG CRONTAB

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Unix Tip 2994 - April 18, 2010

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DEBUG CRONTAB

A good way to debug what you execute in crontab is to redirect the output to another file

10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/Script.ksh > /tmp/Script.dbg

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