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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.chattanooga.net!tarush!tom From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush) Subject: Re: crontab and sh scripts X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Rush Co. Message-ID: <DD79B2.n3@tarush.chattanooga.net> References: <marcus.216.0111D480@ccelab.iastate.edu> <40bmnk$9vo@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:25:49 GMT Lines: 25 James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote: : In article <marcus.216.0111D480@ccelab.iastate.edu>, : Marcus I. Ryan <marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu> wrote: [..snip..] : >I wan't it to update the report nightly, but I can't seem to get the crontab : >entry to make it do this. I have added the lines: : >#Generate New Prelim Logfiles every day at midnight. : >59 23 * * * root /usr/local/bin/stathtml \ : >`date +" %b %B"` : Remove the 'root' field and all should be well (man 5 crontab for details). Also watch out for the '%' character! From aforementioned manpage: "Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with a backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input." This messed me up with an awk command once... -- Tom Rush tom@tarush.chattanooga.net