Re: Crontab Problem
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Ken Irving wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:34:06PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
>>> I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab
>>> (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't
>>> work. It seems like the job just never ran at all. Can anyone
>>> tell me what might have happened?
>>>
>>> (This is of course supposed to be on one line)
>>>
>>> 00 22 * * * root nice /some/place/myscript.sh 1>
>>> /other/place/logs/`date +%F`.output 2> /other/place/logs/`date
>>> +%F`.errors
>>>
>> The % sign has a special meaning in crontabs. Change it to \%.
>
> I don't see any hint of that in crontab(1) or cron(8), but I do see
> some hits on google that talk about it. I've looked on stable
> and unstable, not testing. Are the manpages in error?
>
man 5 crontab
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