Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-116
Severity: minor
The crontab(5) manual page contains the following example:
# Run on every second Saturday of the month
0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
It should read as follows (note the backslash before the percent-sign):
# Run on every second Saturday of the month
0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +\%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
That's because, as the manpage says elsewhere:
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 crontab file. Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless
escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters,
and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard
input.
Cheers,
- Dwayne
-- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR:
not set
--- usr/bin/editor:
/bin/nano
--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 30248 Dec 18 2010 /usr/bin/crontab
--- /var/spool/cron
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 12 2003 /var/spool/cron
--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Sep 25 22:17 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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 1.15.8.11 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 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 lockfile-progs 0.1.15 Programs for locking and unlocking
ii postfix [mail-transport 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 High-performance mail transport ag
Versions of packages cron suggests:
pn anacron <none> (no description available)
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)
ii nscd 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Name Servi
-- debconf-show failed
--
Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dl...@dlitz.net>
OpenPGP: 19E1 1FE8 B3CF F273 ED17 4A24 928C EC13 39C2 5CF7
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