Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:48:34 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question Message-ID: <BANLkTimicmztHixPSq3K1ByXPW_s8YeEcA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110614000258.c5cb84f3.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <BANLkTimD4DaYtvDmiJ4=qaj3CNsKr=XHNQ@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTinCFMqGBx0jkbRH-J03wNkQaPOo7Q@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTikJLpb-PQKWbuyX1F7GWzW1jMpirA@mail.gmail.com> <20110614000258.c5cb84f3.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:02, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:44:29 -0700, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>> Per the handbook, I added
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0SHELL=3D/bin/sh
>>
>> to crontab, and I also added
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0#!/bin/sh
>>
>> as the first line in the script
>>
>> But, while a file is being created, it's just
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0/root/-external1.txt
>>
>> not
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0/root/2011-06-13-external1.txt
>
> Just a wild guess: How about adding {} to the variable
> identifiers? There are some restrictions in how far a
> character following the variable name will be treated
> as a "stop sign", e. g. variable x, literal y, and you
> have $xy which won't work, but $x_y may work, so you
> use ${x}y to make sure the name is properly scoped.
>
> Refering to your original script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> dt=3D`/bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
> /bin/date > /root/${dt}-external1.txt
> /usr/local/bin/curl -K /root/urls.txt >> /root/${dt}-external1.txt
> /bin/date >> /root/${dt}-external1.txt
>
> Could you try that?
Can, and did, and it works like a champ. That solves the last issue.
<snip>
My thank to you Polytropon, and to those who replied privately.
Now all I have to do is pin down whether the name resolution slowness
is in our firewall, or web filter, or external router, or perhaps
something at the ISP.
Kurt
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