Re: [CentOS] Crontabs

2009-06-10 Thread Ian Blackwell
James Bensley wrote: > The crontabs are like the following example; > > 30 20 * * * sh /home/a_user/nightlyscrips/nightly_script_1 > > /home/a_user/nightlyscripts/`date +%d-%m-%Y--%H-%M-%S`.log > > I'm a big fan of keeping the contents of crontab very simple. The only thing I like to see in cro

Re: [CentOS] Crontabs

2009-06-10 Thread James Bensley
Paul, I think its fair to say, "Yo Da Man!". I saw the note at the end of the crontab man pages when trying to find and answer yet for some reason didn't look at crontab (5) man page, what a fool I have been. This has totally resolved the issue, thanks very much...for pointing out im a fool ;) R

Re: [CentOS] Crontabs

2009-06-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James Bensley wrote on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:08:52 +0100: > 30 20 * * * sh /home/a_user/nightlyscrips/nightly_script_1 > > /home/a_user/nightlyscripts/`date +%d-%m-%Y--%H-%M-%S`.log change the ">" to "&>" to get all output. Furthermore, there might be a problem to run date in this environment. The

Re: [CentOS] Crontabs

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2009-06-10 10:08, James Bensley wrote: > Hey list, > > I have several crontabs set up to run at night and I'm not convinced > they are running but of course, I'm not here to see for sure! > The crontabs are like the following example; > > 30 20 * * * sh /home/a_user/nightlyscrips/nightly_scrip

[CentOS] Crontabs

2009-06-10 Thread James Bensley
Hey list, I have several crontabs set up to run at night and I'm not convinced they are running but of course, I'm not here to see for sure! The crontabs are like the following example; 30 20 * * * sh /home/a_user/nightlyscrips/nightly_script_1 > /home/a_user/nightlyscripts/`date +%d-%m-%Y--%H-%M