[colug-432] Where do cron jobs store their generated stdout while running?

[Rob Funk]

On Tuesday 09 February 2010 10:19:18 pm Rob Stampfli wrote:
> A stupid question, the answer of which has proved to be more elusive
> than I would have first thought:  When a cron job completes, its stdout
> and stderr are emailed to the user running the job.  I have a job
> that runs for a prolonged period of time and for which I'd occasionally
> like to review its output while it is in progress, but I can't figure
> out where to look for it.  The executable itself is sending its output
> to a pipe.  There appears to be no file in /tmp or /var/tmp that is
> accumulating this data, but it must be stored somewhere until the job
> completes.  Anyone know where?

I think it just gets buffered in memory. That's the normal state of affairs 
with pipes.


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