Crontab and mandrake revisited

[Francois Bujold]

I am having a problem (i think)with crontab. Here is my crontab line entered using the -e option
* * * * * /bin/echo "allo"
In theory this should echo allo every minutes. My cron log file do show this command at every minutes ie:
Aug 11 21:16:00 firewall CROND[10041]: (root) CMD (/bin/echo "allo")
Aug 11 21:17:00 firewall CROND[10045]: (root) CMD (/bin/echo "allo")
Aug 11 21:18:01 firewall CROND[10049]: (root) CMD (/bin/echo "allo")
Aug 11 21:19:00 firewall CROND[10053]: (root) CMD (/bin/echo "allo")
Aug 11 21:20:00 firewall CROND[10057]: (root) CMD (/bin/echo "allo")
Aug 11 21:21:00 firewall CROND[10061]: (root) CMD (/bin/echo "allo")

yet there is no "allo" showing up to the console...
any idea what's going on??

[I_M]

Hi

* * * * * /bin/echo "allo" > /dev/console

* * * * * /bin/echo "allo" > /dev/tty1

Good luck

[Sean Dale]

* * * * * wall filename

Of course this would broadcast the contents of the txt file to every console. Not sure if you would want to do that. Just another option to ponder...