On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:05:44 -0700 John Purser <jmpurser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Take a look at the "tee" command that takes stdin and writes it to > stdout AND a file. If I understand you correctly you DO want to keep > stdout and stderr as two separate streams, write (at least) std err to > a log file, but have the error messages e-mailed to you as part of > your cron job. <snip> Thanks for your suggestion, but my concern is more about vacuum's behaviour, in fact: those messages are purely /informative/ and get sent to STDERR. This seems wrong to me: 'mundane' activity should be output to STDOUT and 'exceptional conditions' deserve the special fd, don't they ? Francis
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