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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
