I'm trying to create a crontab entry that will run the who command once per hour Monday-Friday. Any command output should be appended to the file whoison.log in my home directory.

This is what I wrote:

crontab 0 * * * 1-5 who >> /home/myhome/whoison.log

Did I do this right?

Thanks

Yes...No...Maybe? Anyone???

that looks fine except you dont need 2 >> only one. ie:

who > yourlogfile.log

learn to be more patient. it was only an hour since you bumped your thread up. and if youve noticed, these boards dont seem to be so busy on sundays....

Thank you, and I apologize for my impatience.

I thought that << was to append, or is it true only in certain circumstances?

Oops, I mean >>, sorry.

Relykk, you're right. >> means append. And since you want to append the output, you need >>.

Thank you both very much.