[redhat-lspp] problem with cron

Raghuveer R raghuveer at in.ibm.com
Mon Apr 16 06:14:58 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:14 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:25:07 +0530, Raghuveer R said:
> 
> > crontab - << EOF
> > `date '+%M' | awk '{ print ($1+2)%60 " * * * * "
> > }'` <path to exec>/a.out
> 
> Just for grins and giggles, can you do a 'crontab -l' and see
> what, if anything, is in the crontab?  I wonder if your fancy `exec`
> backticking managed to not get expanded....

Yes, crontab -l lists the cron job. Had forgotten to mention that in the
previous mail.

Thanks,
Raghuveer




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