From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 4:49:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E207437B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:49:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.duth.gr (mail.duth.gr [192.108.114.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828B843F3F for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:49:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bigbrother@bonbon.net) Received: from bigb3server.bbcluster.gr (b9-19.xan.duth.gr [193.92.211.19]) by mail.duth.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2ACnOVs095712 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:49:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from bigbrother@bonbon.net) Received: from macedon (macedon.vlsi.gr [192.168.3.226]) by bigb3server.bbcluster.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2ACnEZQ033993 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:49:19 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from bigbrother@bonbon.net) From: "Bigbrother" To: Subject: CRON and error message 'EOF in bacquote substitution' Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:52:34 +0200 Organization: Bigbrother Clustered Network Message-ID: <000701c2e703$ec3bb7d0$e203a8c0@macedon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi friends, Recently I put into my crontab the following line 4 0 */10 * * /usr/bin/tar -cyf /backup/lab.`date "+%d%m%Y"`.tar.bz /lab But although I can execute the command into my shell, crond refuses to execute and send me an email saying: <> What am I doing wrong? I suspect that my problem relies on having a tcsh as my default shell, but crontab perhaps is running a different shell. Thanks in advance! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message