[CentOS] cron jobs not running

[Robert Nichols]

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 at 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.

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