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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:10:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/17134: problem with cron forgetting jobs 
Message-ID:  <200003022310.PAA13861@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/17134; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To: tshansen@nlanr.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/17134: problem with cron forgetting jobs 
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:03:36 +1100

 I have seen similar behaviour as well on various versions up to 3.4-STABLE.  In
 particular, if you are testing cron jobs and repeatedly putting crontab entries
 in for say 5 minutes in advance of the current time, sometimes these jobs don't
 run (but the cron log entry is generated as mentioned in the PR).
 
 I've also seen this happen on cron on Solaris 2.6, btw, which is also _very_
 broken with the handling of quotes, escaped % characters. There is no way under
 Solaris cron to get the literal string '%' (i.e. squote pct squote) into a
 command.  Unescaped % is a newline (as per the manual), '\%' is passed as '\%'.
  This does work as expected on FreeBSD.
 
 
 
 
 
 


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