From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 17:07:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30564106566B for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24A38FC0C for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-32-177.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.32.177]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41A228BDE; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:06:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q5CH6TgH004775; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:06:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:06:29 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Mark Felder Message-Id: <20120612190629.6a45cb11.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <201206120506.q5C56L2H026673@mail.r-bonomi.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:07:12 -0000 On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > 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. There are some "specific interpretations" that _may_ be interpreted according to the C rules, e. g. prefix 0x- for hexadecimal or 08- for octal notation. For example, 083 != 83, just as 0x83 != 83. As it has been mentioned, spaces also have a significant meaning in crontabs, so they cannot be used everywhere to align data columns. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...