[NTLUG:Discuss] Cron Job Issues

Stephen Davidson gorky at freenet.carleton.ca
Wed Aug 2 06:55:53 CDT 2006


Greetings.

I am hoping that this is something reasonably routine, designed just to 
trip up newbies.  I am trying to copy a tar ball generated by a backup 
job from one server to another.  I only need the latest file in the 
directory, not all of the files in the directory.

So, I worked out the following command line;
scp -p steve at j2eeguys.com:/work/backups/CVS.`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz 
/work/sda1/backups

That works from the command line.  However, when I put this in a 
crontab, it fails????  I get mailed the following output,

 From steve at blue.j2eeguys.com  Wed Aug  2 01:30:03 2006
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 01:30:01 -0500
From: root at blue.j2eeguys.com (Cron Daemon)
To: steve at blue.j2eeguys.com
Subject: Cron <steve at blue> scp -p 
steve at j2eeguys.com:/work/backups/HRXCVS.`date +
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/steve>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=steve>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=steve>

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

So, any suggestions on how to fix this????  I was hoping I could just 
drop a 'one-liner' into my crontab to do the copy.

-Steve




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