On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:37:42 -0700, Grant wrote about [gentoo-user] crontab not executing:
> One of my systems has a crontab like this to clean up and consolidate > the output of the video monitoring app "motion": > > # crontab -l > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/home/grant/cron.root.txt installed on Sat Sep 25 10:42:18 2010) > # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 > vixie Exp $) 50 23 * * * /bin/rm /home/motion/$(date -d 'yesterday' > +%Y%m%d)*.jpg 55 23 * * * /bin/rm /home/motion/$(date -d 'yesterday' > +%Y%m%d)*.avi 59 23 * * * /usr/bin/mencoder /home/motion/$(date > +%Y%m%d)*.avi -noidx -o /home/motion/full-$(date +%Y%m%d).avi -ovc > copy -oac copy > > If I execute each command manually, it works great, but nothing > happens otherwise. Can someone tell me why this crontab doesn't seem > to be executing? For starters, you don't have any environment variables assigned at the top of your crontab. Here is mine: # Establish environment variables. JAVA_HOME='/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm' PATH='/home/dwn/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/bin:/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/jre/bin:/opt/bin' TMPDIR='/tmp' HOME='/home/dwn' SHELL='/bin/zsh' LOGNAME='dwn' LC_ALL='en_GB.UTF-8' http_proxy='http://localhost:8080' ftp_proxy='http://localhost:8080' RSYNC_PROXY='localhost:8080' ZFTP_PREFS='P' PGHOST='' PGPORT='' # Set our priority level. !nice(4) # Clean up old backup files. %daily 38 20 find "$HOME/" \( -name \*~ -o -iname \*.bak -o -iname \*.bak\? \) -print -delete # Clean out the work directory for Lazarus. %daily 18 05 find "$HOME/Lazarus_projects/tmp/" -mindepth 1 -delete # Download the development trunk of Free Pascal compiler. %daily 13 07 fpc_download.zsh # Purge old mailing list messages from Free Pascal. %daily 37 04 mail_purge.py '6d5c5c5a8aa90d8a' # Clear the cache for epiphany. %daily 27 06 cd "$HOME/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany" && rm -rf compreg.dat pluginreg.dat Cache .parentlock # Clean out old GNOME sessions. #%hourly 13 find "$HOME/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/" -mindepth 1 -name \*.desktop -delete # Clean out the cache subdirectories under $HOME. %daily 28 06 cache_clean.zsh # Check Portage for orphans. #%daily 32 06 portage_orphans.zsh -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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