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RE: cron problem report
- From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: "Seiji Tokunaga" <stokunag at gmu dot edu>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:37:11 -0500
- Subject: RE: cron problem report
>
> % crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3928 installed on Mon Mar 1 15:03:19 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41
> corinna Exp $)
> * * * * * `date` >> ${HOME}/foo.log
> %
Do not include backquotes on 'date' -- you
are instructing cron to execute the date
string. Simply use:
* * * * * date >> /usr/tmp/date.txt
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