syntax problem with cron

Wed Sep 8 12:54:17 UTC 2004

Am Mi, den 08.09.2004 schrieb Steven Stern um 14:50:

> I'm having a problem running a command from cron that works well from the
> command line.
> 
> The cron line is
> 
>   1 * * * * sleep $[ $RANDOM % 1800 ] ;/usr/bin/freshclam --quiet

>   Steve 

See "man 5 crontab". "%" is a special sign and has to be escaped.

Alexander

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