From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 11 06:30:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E9416A402 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:30:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkirhlarov@localhost.oilspace.com) Received: from office.oilspace.com (office.oilspace.com [194.129.65.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A6C43D48 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:30:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkirhlarov@localhost.oilspace.com) Received: from dimma.mow.oilspace.com (hq.oilspace.com [81.19.78.185]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by office.oilspace.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8574136CDB for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:30:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from dimma.mow.oilspace.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dimma.mow.oilspace.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k3B6UO9W066852 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:30:24 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from dkirhlarov@localhost.oilspace.com) Received: (from dkirhlarov@localhost) by dimma.mow.oilspace.com (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id k3B6UNHO066851 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:30:23 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from dkirhlarov) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:30:23 +0400 From: Dmitriy Kirhlarov To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060411063023.GD780@dimma.mow.oilspace.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mutt-ng devel (2005-03-13) based on Mutt 1.5.9 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r581 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Command doesn't run from Crontab ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:30:26 -0000 On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:10:52PM +1000, Adrian wrote: > Hi, > > I have setup this command to run nightly via a crontab. It works > fine from the root shell (tcsh) but doesn't seem to run from the > crontab: > > /bin/cp /etc/master.passwd /etc/master.passwd_backup_`/bin/date +%Y%m%d` escape % /bin/cp /etc/master.passwd /etc/master.passwd_backup_`/bin/date +\%Y\%m\%d` By. Dmitriy