To build on what the other two are saying: crontabs have special formats and ultimately they're going to munge certain characters as will the shell. Putting a command like that in crontab will always be an exercise in frustration and often leads to the "four backslashes" issue.
I'd recommend you move the command to a shell script and then run the shell script from crontab. You might even leave the timeout command in the crontab. But I'd definitely put the rest of it into a shell script. -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. [email protected] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAAtfUtHT%3DQordS_KJ7tMOEdUkusWJv8_2if3VqFKifG%3DSTWoLw%40mail.gmail.com.
