[X-Unix] Cron problem - Again

[David Ledger]

Not a solution to you real problem, but what you have is rather convoluted.

date "+%X"
gives the same as your exacttime script.

David


>From: Marley Graham <mgraham at aquaflo.com>
>Subject: Re: [X-Unix] Cron problem - Again
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>I have my screencapture program running under cron on my machine. So
>I figured I would do the same on some client machines for which I
>have set up an admin account. But it doesn't work on the client
>machines. Here is what I have:
>
>On my machine:
>$ crontab -l
>0,30 7-16 * * 1-6 /users/marleygraham/screenpict
>
>Where screenpict is the script:
>#!/bin/bash
>/usr/sbin/screencapture mg$(/users/marleygraham/exacttime)
>exit
>
>And exacttime is the script:
>#!/bin/bash
>/bin/date +%r > tempdate
>awk '{print $1}' tempdate
>rm tempdate
>exit

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