Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:36:37 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Subject: Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running? Message-ID: <443960ppfu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <op.wfsk2or734t2sn@tech304> (Mark Felder's message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500") References: <201206120506.q5C56L2H026673@mail.r-bonomi.com> <op.wfsk2or734t2sn@tech304>
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Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> writes: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi > <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: > >> Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- >> you >> are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers >> will not >> be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to avoid the >> hair-tearing >> that =will= ensue when using it bites you. > > Any other info on this? I've never heard of this before and I've never > seen an issue using leading zeroes on the minutes value. I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect (like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal.
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