On 07/30/2011 10:07 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
hello list!!
I'm attempting to find out why this cron job isn't running. the host is centos 5.6 on i386 just so you know.
0 3 * * * /bin/alldb> /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%S).sql
However I do see the job is running in the cron logs
[root@VIRTCENT09:/home/bluethundr/backupdb] #tail /var/log/cron Jul 30 22:59:01 VIRTCENT09 crond[8007]: (root) CMD (/bin/alldb> /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date +)
From `man 5 crontab`:
The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or % character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified in the SHELL vari- able of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input.