Cron problems

[Thomas Keusch]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:49:18PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:

Hell Bernt,

> I'm having problems with lines like this in cron, works on the command  
> line, but not in cron.
>
> /sbin/dump -0uan -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish \
> targetuser at targetmachine.example.com dd  
> of=/mybigfiles/dump-usr-l0-"`date "+%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S"`".gz

you need to escape the percent-signs like that: \%

For why see man 5 crontab

Regards
Thomas