Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:47:27 -0800 (PST) From: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab to backup mail in date format Message-ID: <20020116024727.49626.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201141625490.20828-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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--- Dear Jan Thank you. It works now But how do I know that % doesn't work in crontab? BTW, I met another problem. There will be many backup in the server by date format How do I create cron to delete the date format backup after 3 days automatically again? Thank you again Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > 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. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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