On 21/06/05, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following works fine from the CLI:
> # /usr/bin/killall -9 wget && echo "It is `date +'%a %R'`, all wget jobs
> terminated... "
>
> but gives me error when invoked from /etc/crontab (the entry is one line
> though it appears in 2 lines due to auto wrapping in the MUA):
Dude... read at least the man page before posting here. Googling is
too much to ask for, I know.
crontab(5) has:
The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be
run. The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or %
character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified in the
SHELL variable of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the command,
unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline charac-
ters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as
standard input.
Do you see your problem now?
Binand
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