Thanks Cameron, Ramesh, & Steve. I ended up putting in in a script. Mike
On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:10, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 03:18 08 Mar 2003, M.Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > Percents are special in Vixie cron crontabs. You need to slosh it: > | > > | > /bin/tar czvf /root/dbman_back-`date '+\%m\%d\%Y\%H\%M'`-tar.gz > | > /var/www/cgi-bin/dbman > | > > | > "man 5 crontab" says > | > [...] Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless > | > escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline > | > characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to > | > the command as standard input. > | > | That didn't work Cameron. It gives me a file with the name of: > | dbman_back-\03\08\2003\03\14-tar.gz > > Bugger. Maybe the manual lies. > > Just chuck it in a script and call the script: > I tend to do that anyway myself as soon as a cron command becomes even > slightly complex. It also means you don't need to worry about weird cron > syntaxes interfering with your shell syntax. > > Cheers, > -- > Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ > > ... and that was only one of many occasions on which I met my death, > an experience which I don't hesitate to recommend strongly. > - Baron von Munchausen -- This fortune soaks up 47 times its own weight in excess memory. 14:05:01 up 49 days, 21:05, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.12 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
