As, always I want to thank everyone who responded. Just about everyone came up
with the same solution. Listed below is the question summary, answer, SUN Guru's
to thank, and the original post.
[=========================== Question Summary ===========================]
Why is my cron job dropping that last line of output?
[=========================== Answer ===========================]
The problem was that line was going to standard error output.
The gollowing line fixed the problem:
50 09 * * 0-6 /export/home/cnaadmin/telnet.csh 2>&1 | tee -i /export/home/cnaadmin/telnet.out
[=========================== Thanks To ===========================]
Darius_Terrell@khan.avalon.COM
Ken_Simpson@tmai.com
ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de
gerhard@jason.nl
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dchu@winslo.ohio.gov
Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au
antonio.colombo@amail.amdahl.com
fgreco@lehman.com
manjeet@iglou.com
[=========================== Original Question ===========================]
Situation:
When I run the following cron job it appears to be dropping the last line of
output. As demonstrated by the following:
$ crontab -l
50 09 * * 0-6 /export/home/cnaadmin/telnet.csh | tee -i /export/home/cnaadmin/telnet.out
51 09 * * 0-6 /usr/ucb/mail -s "Telnet Check" goldsteg@cna.org < /export/home/cnaadmin/telnet.out
The output in telnet.out looks like this:
Trying ###.###.###.# ...
Connected to xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
When I run the same command from the csh I get the following output (notice the
last line is there).
Trying ###.###.###.# ...
Connected to xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.
Escape character is '^]'.
Unauthorized Use Is Prohibited. TELNET denied!
Why is it dropping the last line?
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