Chris Purcell wrote > root's crontab looks something like this... > > SHELL=/bin/bash > MAILTO=root > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > rsync=/usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -azv --delete --delete-excluded > --exclude=/some/folder root@serverA::home /home/ > > 7 */2 * * * $rsync > /root/rsync_`/bin/date +%m%d_%I%M%p` > > The problem is redirecting the output to the above file name. If I > manually run that command from the shell, it works fine and creates a file > called something like /root/rsync_1010_1257PM. When I run it from a cron > job, it fails and the job doesn't run. This is the error... > > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' > /bin/bash: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > If I do a simple redirect without the date command, it works fine. For > example, $rsync > somefile.txt works no problem from cron. Cron treats the first % as a newline, so it never sees the end quote. You need to escape all the %. -justinb -- Justin Banks Constant Data, Inc. http://www.constantdata.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
