Re: Crontab Problem
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?
--
Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu
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