From: Brown, Tim (TBrown@amherst1.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 13:43:00 EDT
I'm trying to run the collect utility in crontab everyday and have the
output file reflect the current date and time. I'm using the following
command;
0 8 * * * /usr/sbin/collect -s cf -R 1h -f /usr/users/`date
+%m-%d-%Y:%I:%M`_node
This should run collect for 1 hour and then write the file with the current
date and node, i.e. 05-05-2003:12:30_node.cgz
This works fine in command line mode but fails in crontab with this error;
error opening /dev/tty
I believe the process wants to write to stdout but fails when running in the
background.
What do I need to do to have this command execute in crontab?
Thanks,
Tim
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