Thanks..... It was the escape.... Casper: "You need to escape the % because cron reads it as a line feed and gives the rest of the line as input to the script. Like so: cp -p /opt/logs/perllog /opt/logs/perllog.`date +\%m-\%d-\% " Rob -----Forwarded Message----- From: rmck <rmckeever@earthlink.net> Sent: May 11, 2004 7:27 AM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: Sol 8 Crontab question Hi I have a cron job that I just want to rename a file with a date at the end: 01 * * * * cp -p /opt/logs/perllog /opt/logs/perllog.`date +%m-%d-%y' ; rm -rf /opt/logs/perllog ; touch /opt/logs/perllog The cron runs but names the file like so: perllog. What am I doing wrong? It works on my Red Hat system...... Rob _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue May 11 10:51:41 2004
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