On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:19:14PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Shaul Karl wrote:
Hi, > > >Should > > > > > > date '+%a %b %e %Y' > > > > > >work from within crontab? > > > > It likely won't with Vixie Cron. IIRC, Vixie Cron uses the % character > > as a newline/comment. Here's the relevant part from crontab(5) > > To tell the truth, I just had the same problem on a solaris server at > work... my process didn't produce any logs for a few days until I went > to check and realized what was going on. I wouldn't think solaris used > vixie, but I could be wrong. I'll have to check the man page on Monday. > > If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd love to find out too :-\ But your stuff in a short script and execute the Script via cron. Sven -- Lamer! :)\nLokaler Admin mit enormen Rechten[tm] [Christian Schneider und Jens Himmelrath in alt.hacker.org-gcf] http://www.linux-secure.de http://www.linuxboard.de http://www.bluephod.net http://www.disconow.de