Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:26:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab to backup mail in date format Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201141625490.20828-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020114161715.86067.qmail@web20101.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > I have problem about crontab to backup mail in date > format > > error from root: > /bin/sh: unexpected EOF while looking for ``' > >/bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax erro > > > My contrab is as follows: > > 5 21 * * * tar czvf /backup/`date > "+%Y-%m-%d"`home.tar.gz /home > /dev/null 2>&1 > 59 23 * * * tar cvf /backup/`date > "+%Y-%m-%d"`backupmail.tar /mail > /dev/null 2>&1 % characters in crontab are turned into newlines when the whole thing is sent to the shell; turn the command line into a little script and call that from cron. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Strive to live every day as though it was last Wednesday. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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