Apparently, though unproven, at 18:44 on Sunday 22 August 2010, Mick did opine thusly:
> > No, it's saying it wants EOF on a line all by itself with no leading > > whitespace. That thing that looks like a backtick is an open quote. > > Hmm ... so what should the corrected logrotate script look like then? > > cat << > EOF > | /usr/bin/chronyc | sed '/^200 OK$/d' > password $PASSWORD > cyclelogs > EOF > endscript > } Change the other EOF instead. It's a "here document", search for that phrase in man bash to find out more. It tells bash what will cause input redirection from stdin to end. The first EOF is the string to look for, the second one is the trigger that ends input -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
