Cron error

[Bob Bell]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:50:44AM -0500, Greg Rundlett wrote:
>Does anyone see why this command
>  /usr/bin/webalizer -c 
>/var/www/html/intranet.buzgate.org/stats/webalizer/webalizer.www.conf 
>/var/log/httpd/www_logs/www.`date --date=yesterday +%Y%m%d`.gz
>
>works from the shell, but errors in cron with this error message:
>
>    
>/var/www/html/intranet.buzgate.org/stats/webalizer/webalizer.www.conf 
>/var/log/httpd/www_logs/www.`date
>    --date=yesterday +
>
>/bin/sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
>/bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
>I don't know why it says there is an EOF marker.  The command is 'one 
>line' cut and pasted directly from the shell.

$ man 5 crontab
...
Percent-signs  (%)  in  the  command, unless escaped with backslash (\), 
will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first 
% will be sent to the command as standard input.


-- 
Bob Bell