Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:19:14PM -0600, DvB wrote: > > Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > >Should > > > > > > > > date '+%a %b %e %Y' > > > > > > > >work from within crontab? > > > > > > It likely won't with Vixie Cron. IIRC, Vixie Cron uses the % character > > > as a newline/comment. Here's the relevant part from crontab(5) > > > > To tell the truth, I just had the same problem on a solaris server at > > work... my process didn't produce any logs for a few days until I went > > to check and realized what was going on. I wouldn't think solaris used > > vixie, but I could be wrong. I'll have to check the man page on Monday. > > > > If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd love to find out too :-\ > But your stuff in a short script and execute the Script via cron. >
I was hoping not to have to do it that way. I already do that in order to set up the environment for perl scripts and it just feels like a kludge to me... looks like that's the only way though. Oh well.
