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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:52:34 +0200
From:      "Bigbrother" <bigbrother@bonbon.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   CRON and error message 'EOF in bacquote substitution'
Message-ID:  <000701c2e703$ec3bb7d0$e203a8c0@macedon>

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Hi friends,

Recently I put into my crontab the following line

4 0 */10 * * /usr/bin/tar -cyf /backup/lab.`date "+%d%m%Y"`.tar.bz /lab

But although I can execute the command into my shell, crond refuses to
execute and send me an email saying:

<<Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution>>


What am I doing wrong? I suspect that my problem relies on having a tcsh
as my default shell, but crontab perhaps is running a different shell.

Thanks in advance!



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