log redirection

[jeysun]

Hi,
It will be nice if somebody give me some tips how to handle this .
I am running a script in cron which redirects the stderr and stdout to a file using
scrip >file.log 2>&1

But,sometimes I need to interact with the output like answer the question Y or N to proceed the script.But I can't do this using this type of log redirection.

Can anybody suggest some better way of doing this?

Jeysun

 

[crowe]

you can redirect just the STND error like this:

# script 2> error.log

all the STND out (prompts for questions) will function as normal.

crowe

 

[KenCunningham]

If my reading is correct, it's the fact that it's running in cron that's causing the problem in terms of it's lack of interactivity. If that is the case, wouldn't an if..then.. else or case construct (depending on how many eventualities there are likely to be) be a better way of handling this?