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Vixie Humor

Robrt on 2003-10-19T17:19:15

Command output is mailed to the crontab owner (BSD can’t do this), can be mailed to a person other than the crontab owner (SysV can’t do this), or the feature can be turned off and no mail will be sent at all (SysV can’t do this either).
--- Paul Vixie, in crontab(5)

Pretty funny, but...

jordan on 2003-10-19T17:57:50

Does anyone know why BSD can't mail output to the crontab owner?

Re:Pretty funny, but...

Dom2 on 2003-10-19T19:33:07

It doesn't matter anymore. All modern BSDs use Vixie cron now, AFAIK. I'd guess he was talking about 4.3BSD.

-Dom

Re:Pretty funny, but...

merlyn on 2003-10-19T23:14:27

Especially cute since that line is still in my OpenBSD crontab(5) manpage.

about vixie?

mary.poppins on 2003-10-19T21:57:27

Darn, I thought this would be humor *about* Vixie.... :)

As in the famous Somebody set up us the BIND.