From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 14:36:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7F5106566B for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:36:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23AC8FC0C for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.48]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7EBA713DE for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:36:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 9183 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2012 14:36:39 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 2894, pid: 30655, t: 0.1479s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:10739 Received: from unknown (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Jun 2012 14:36:39 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 0B2A033C24; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:36:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Mark Felder References: <201206120506.q5C56L2H026673@mail.r-bonomi.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:36:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Mark Felder's message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500") Message-ID: <443960ppfu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi Subject: Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:36:41 -0000 Mark Felder writes: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi > 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.