Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-120 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
In man 5 crontab there are a few examples with "date +.." commands executed in cron jobs. However, none of these are working because cron considers '+' a special character and deletes the string after it. This is what I received from such an execution: /bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting ")") The cron job was: # m h dom mon dow command 2 * * * * test $(date +%u) -eq 3 && echo Wed21 Thanks -- Package-specific info: --- EDITOR: --- /usr/bin/editor: /usr/bin/vim.basic --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 31100 Sep 18 23:35 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron: drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 13 2009 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs: drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 13 2009 /var/spool/cron/crontabs --- /etc/cron.d: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 19 14:21 /etc/cron.d --- /etc/cron.daily: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 20 21:59 /etc/cron.daily --- /etc/cron.hourly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 19 14:21 /etc/cron.hourly --- /etc/cron.monthly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 19 14:21 /etc/cron.monthly --- /etc/cron.weekly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 19 14:21 /etc/cron.weekly -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.113 ii debianutils 4.0.2 ii dpkg 1.16.0.3 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.3-2 ii libpam0g 1.1.3-2 ii libselinux1 2.1.0-1 ii lsb-base 3.2-28 Versions of packages cron recommends: ii ssmtp [mail-transport-agent] 2.64-5 Versions of packages cron suggests: ii anacron 2.3-14 ii checksecurity <none> ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Versions of packages cron is related to: pn libnss-ldap <none> pn libnss-ldapd <none> pn libpam-ldap <none> pn libpam-mount <none> pn nis <none> pn nscd <none> -- 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
