FINAL SUMMARY: cron problem - output redirection not working

as suggested by
Walt Sullivan" <Walt.Sullivan@edgeflow.com>

> I'm glad I could help. But, this means that you owe the sunmanagers list a
> new summary that includes the solution!
>
> Walt

for crontab files or indeed any shell script:
Remove extra spaces after the '\'
Problem:
> tar cvf tape \
>     /u1 \<space>
>     > log \
>     2> err

Should be
tar cvf tape \
     /u1 \
     > log \
     2> err




>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Sullivan" <Walt.Sullivan@edgeflow.com>
> To: <kdevitt@iel.ie>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 1:45 PM
>
>
> > Are you _sure_ (in the /usr/bin/sum or md5 sense) that the two systems'
> > scripts are IDENTICAL?
> > If the non-redirecting one had any whitespace (blank, tab, formfeed)
> > following a \ used to continue a line, the line would NOT be continued.
> >
> > A "cat -vet" of the file would show if this were true. Another symptom
of
> > broken continuation would be the creation of a 0 byte $ERROR or $LOG
file.
> >
> > Walt Sullivan
> > Unix Guy
> >
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Karl Devitt" <kdevitt@iel.ie>
> > To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
> > Subject: SUMMARY: cron problem - output redirection not working
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:35:17 +0100
> > Reply-To: kdevitt@iel.ie
> >
> >
> > Thanks all, and special thanks goes to Paul Hedgepeth who suggested the
=
> > use of parenthesis:
> > (tar cvf $TAPE \
> >   /usr /u1 /u2 /opt \
> >   /build /etc /export /TT_DB \
> >   >> $LOG) \
> >   2> $ERROR
> >
> > Have used this in a test script from cron and it works fine, still =
> > unsure why there is a discrepancy between the systems though.
> >
> > Karl.
> >
> >
> >
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