crontab entry
Rodgers Hemer
r.hemer at w-link.net
Thu Jul 7 16:03:10 PDT 2011
On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
>
>> On 7/7/2011 1:31 PM, Rodgers Hemer wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Cron does not like the arguments that are a part of the normal
>>> filePro command.
>> [...]
>>
>> Huh?
>
> I believe he was suggesting that there may be some cron daemons that get
> cranky when the last argument has lots of whitespace in it, and I've seen
> enough cron daemons to believe that might be true of some of them.
>
> It's always a good idea to encapsulate complicated crontab jobs in scripts
> anyway, subject to security precautions, and it's nearly a requirement for
> multiline ones.
>
Jay:
Thanks for answering for me. You said it better than I could have.
Rodgers Hemer
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