On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:18:48PM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: > >> 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
... oops, missed that. I thought I'd checked the SEE ALSOs, but obviously not. Thanks, Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]