Cron Problem
rgheck
rgheck at comcast.net
Sat Aug 22 13:55:22 UTC 2009
On 08/22/2009 09:28 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> From the crontab(5) manual page reads:
>
> The "sixth" field (the rest of the line) specifies the command
> to be
> run. The entire command portion of the line, up to a
> newline or %
> character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified
> in the
> SHELL variable of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the
> command,
> unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline
> charac-
> ters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the
> command as
> standard input.
>
>
Thanks. I'm guessing this solves it.
rh
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