> 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, Justin Banks already gave me the correct answer in an earlier post... Cron treats the first % as a newline, so it never sees the end quote. You need to escape all the %. -justinb My new cron entry looks like this now and works okay... 7 */2 * * * $rsync > /root/rsync_`/bin/date +\%m\%d_\%I\%M\%p` 2>&1 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
