Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal
Hi, Amongst the examples given in crontab(5), one can find: # Run on every second Saturday of the month 0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday" This doesn't work, because % is special (in the same manpage: "Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters") The correct line should read: 0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +\%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday" Cheers, Y. -- Package-specific info: --- EDITOR: --- usr/bin/editor: /usr/bin/vim.gtk --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 30248 Dec 19 2010 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 11 2005 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Apr 21 10:33 /var/spool/cron/crontabs -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg 1.15.8.13 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.13-37 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: ii exim4 4.72-6+squeeze3 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail 4.72-6+squeeze3 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended ii lockfile-progs 0.1.15+squeeze1 Programs for locking and unlocking Versions of packages cron suggests: ii anacron 2.3-14 cron-like program that doesn't go pn checksecurity <none> (no description available) ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility Versions of packages cron is related to: pn libnss-ldap <none> (no description available) pn libnss-ldapd <none> (no description available) pn libpam-ldap <none> (no description available) pn libpam-mount <none> (no description available) pn nis <none> (no description available) pn nscd <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
