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Subject: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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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