[thelist] mysqldump and crontab

[Ronald Nissley]

The following seems to work well on Fedora (FC 6):

Using crontab -e, set the SHELL variable at the top of your script

SHELL=/bin/bash

and escape + and % in your date commands.

For example, the date commands in my crontab now look like: `date
\+\%m\%d\%y`

HTH,

Ron