Is the Crontab broken in the Mandrake 7.2? For past few days after I
installed the new crontabs for one user and another as other, it simply do
not run at all.
Here is the entry that I set up in the crontab as follows:
Elik's Crontab:
25 13 17 * * tar -zcpf /home/elik/archives-backup/2798-Monthly-`date
'+%b'`.tar.gz /home/bt2798/2798/backups/`date '+b'`*
20 13 17 * * tar -zcpf /home/elik/archives-backup/3056-Monthly-`date
'+%b'`.tar.gz /home/bt3056/3056/backups/`date '+b'`*
Bt2798's Crontab
22 13 * * * /bin/sh tar -zcpf /home/bt2798/backup/bt2798-`date
'+%b-%d-%a'`.tar.gz /home/bt2798/2798/data/
So..after few days of checking the directories... they do not have it. I
tested the command as it is and it works nicely, but no under cron. It
seems regular cron jobs that is placed in the /etc works fine, but nothing
for the crontab files.
Any clue guys?
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Linux Administrator & Consultant
Russell "Elik" Rademacher
