Am 2006-12-07 22:34:06, schrieb Grok Mogger: > 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 ^ This do not work in crontabs
You must put your EXEC string in a script file end then execute it. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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