Hey Dave,
percent signs are a special character in crontab so they need to
be quoted. Cron is hitting the first % in your date command treating that
as new line seperator. From the crontab(5) page:
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.
Hope that helps...
M.
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to create a log file for a process with a date appended to the
> logfile name. For example, update.log.120699. Below is my crontab input
> and the error message mailed to me. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
> /u01/oracle/admin/prod/scripts/update.ora >
> /u01/oracle/admin/prod/log/update.log.`date +%m%d%y` 2>&1
>
>
> /u01/oracle/admin/prod/scripts/update.ora >
> /u01/oracle/admin/prod/log/update.log.`date +
>
> /bin/sh: unexpected EOF while looking for ``'
> /bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error
>
>
>
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