> because of the way that sh parses the command line, so stderr would
> get redirected to the same place as stdout (cron's pipe) and then
> stdout would get redirected to /dev/null.  so change that to 
> 
>    @reboot <path-to-script>/<my-script> >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> and stdout will get sent to /dev/null, and then stderr will get sent
> to the same place.

Fantastic...that worked a treat!  (Although I do feel a bit silly...)

Thanks,

David.