Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:39:36 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jason Lieurance <jason@vipersystems.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a certain cron job Message-ID: <20030908083936.GA45594@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <14243.205.240.37.184.1062989058.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> References: <13696.205.240.37.184.1062986048.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz> <20030907212701.K1087@grond.sourballs.org> <14243.205.240.37.184.1062989058.squirrel@www.vipersystems.biz>
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:44:18PM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote:
> Thank you for the response. Does the date part (Date=3D`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`=
) go as part
> of the cron job? Thanks again.
% characters are special in crontabs -- you need to escape them using
a backslash:
0 0 * * * mail -s log web@ourdomain.com < /var/log/`date +"\%Y-\%m-\%d"`=
-error_log
Cheers,
Matthew
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