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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: crontab and sh scripts
Date: 11 Aug 1995 10:33:04 +0200
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Marcus I. Ryan <marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu> wrote:

>Basically is greps through the log files a few hundred times :)
(Btw., you might get better performance writing this in Perl.)

>#Generate New Prelim Logfiles every day at midnight.
>59      23      *       *       *       root    /usr/local/bin/stathtml \
>`date +" %b %B"`

>Security issues aside, what am I doing wrong here?

Which crontab file are you using?  Confusingly enough, there are two
sorts of crontab files: /etc/crontab, for the traditionalists (which
IMHO opens up a security hole), and /var/cron/tabs/*, as managed by
the crontab(1) command.  Your syntax is correct for the former, while
the latter don't use the `user' field (since the files are kept on a
per-user basis).
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)