> Sounds like cron isn't running as root. So it is able to write a file
> without hard coding a path to it because it is creating the file in it's
> working directory. Create a directory that the user cron is running as
> can write to. That sounds like what the problem is.
>
> Wade
Actually, Ju
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Chris Purcell
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: crontab entry
root's crontab looks something like this...
SHELL=/bin/bash
MAILTO=root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin
Chris Purcell wrote
> root's crontab looks something like this...
>
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> MAILTO=root
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> rsync=/usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -azv --delete --delete-excluded
> --exclude=/some/folder [EMAIL PROTECTED]::home /home/
>
> 7 */2 *
root's crontab looks something like this...
SHELL=/bin/bash
MAILTO=root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
rsync=/usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -azv --delete --delete-excluded
--exclude=/some/folder [EMAIL PROTECTED]::home /home/
7 */2 * * * $rsync > /root/rsync_`/bin/date +
My thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Arthur H. Johnson II
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for helping to alleviate my stupidity. ;-) It seems
that crond was tripping over the % rather than the +:
>actually its the % that crond is interpreting as newline. use
>/usr/local/sbin/backup.bash "`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d
e command in a crontab entry, and I keep
> getting an error. I've tried just about every possible syntax I can think
> of, so I'm either being stupid or what I want can't be done. I've tried
> the following entries (minus the time/date/day fields):
>
> /usr/lo
actually its the % that crond is interpreting as newline. use
/usr/local/sbin/backup.bash "`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d`" Fri
steve
-Original Message-
From: Eric Sisler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 07 March 2002 15:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Using the date command in a cro
Greetings,
I'm trying to insert the date command in a crontab entry, and I keep
getting an error. I've tried just about every possible syntax I can think
of, so I'm either being stupid or what I want can't be done. I've tried
the following entries (minus the tim
Uncle Meat wrote:
> On 22-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke something to the effect:
> >
> > If I change the command to
> >
> >/301 ** *root run-parts
> > /etc/run.hourly
> >
> > Then this command will every half hour right ?
>
> You intuition about the form
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> does the following crontab entry
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly
> read
> run at 1 am everyday and month run-parts ?
No, it says run every minute.
>
> The problem is I thought crontab entries were of the format
&
>
>does the following crontab entry
>01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly
>read
>run at 1 am everyday and month run-parts ?
>
>The problem is I thought crontab entries were of the format
>
> Minute Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfW
does the following crontab entry
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/run.hourly
read
run at 1 am everyday and month run-parts ?
The problem is I thought crontab entries were of the format
Minute Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfWeek Command
eg 0 1 ** * root
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