From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:37:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikkQ1ZNWTeuQ6sgjo9QSP56SHYz1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
One of my systems has a crontab like this to clean up and consolidate
the output of the video monitoring app "motion":
# crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/home/grant/cron.root.txt installed on Sat Sep 25 10:42:18 2010)
# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)
50 23 * * * /bin/rm /home/motion/$(date -d 'yesterday' +%Y%m%d)*.jpg
55 23 * * * /bin/rm /home/motion/$(date -d 'yesterday' +%Y%m%d)*.avi
59 23 * * * /usr/bin/mencoder /home/motion/$(date +%Y%m%d)*.avi -noidx
-o /home/motion/full-$(date +%Y%m%d).avi -ovc copy -oac copy
If I execute each command manually, it works great, but nothing
happens otherwise. Can someone tell me why this crontab doesn't seem
to be executing?
- Grant
next reply other threads:[~2011-06-19 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-19 22:37 Grant [this message]
2011-06-19 23:45 ` [gentoo-user] crontab not executing David W Noon
2011-06-20 5:18 ` Florian Philipp
2011-06-20 6:30 ` Adam Carter
2011-06-20 8:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-20 9:07 ` Florian Philipp
2011-06-20 10:39 ` Adam Carter
2011-06-20 11:22 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-20 11:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-20 11:53 ` Florian Philipp
2011-06-20 13:52 ` Willie Wong
2011-06-20 12:52 ` Todd Goodman
[not found] ` <1426203.rtguKxDEjI@nazgul>
2011-06-20 14:47 ` Grant
2011-06-20 14:57 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-06-22 14:40 ` Grant
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