Fwd: Cron <root at hXXXXXX> tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date +

[Keith]

You need to add/use the full PATH to the program you want to run.



  3       3       *       *       * \
/path/to/tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date +%F`.tgz /var/www/htdocs .



On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Alexander Farber wrote:

> Hello,
>
> could someone please advise me, why would
> my tar-command work fine on the command line:
>
> hXXXXXX:afarber {272} sudo tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date
> +%F`.tgz /var/www/htdocs .
> hXXXXXX:afarber {273} sudo ls -l /root/backups
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1087070 Oct  6 14:43 htdocs-2006-10-06.tgz
>
> But fails in the root's crontab:
>
> h754814:afarber {274} sudo crontab -l
>
> Thank you
> Alex
>
>
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> Date: Oct 6, 2006 3:03 AM
> Subject: Cron <root at h754814> tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date +
> To: root at hXXXXXX.serverkompetenz.net
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>
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
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