-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:34:06PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> The % sign has a special meaning in crontabs. Change it to \%. > > I don't see any hint of that in crontab(1) or cron(8), but I do see > some hits on google that talk about it. I've looked on stable > and unstable, not testing. Are the manpages in error? >
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