[Systems] crontab problem

David Farning dfarning at sugarlabs.org
Mon Oct 12 18:18:03 EDT 2009


Thanks,
Crontab uses % as a newline character. I just escaped it as \% and the
job works fine.

david

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-systems at silbe.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:11:32PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>
>> It doesn't seem to work when run as a cron job.
>
> Please check the cron job output on systems-logs (it's producing errors). I
> suspect cron is doing some unescaping/unquoting.
>
> CU Sascha
>
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