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One of my systems has a crontab like this to clean up and consolidate |
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the output of the video monitoring app "motion": |
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# crontab -l |
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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. |
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# (/home/grant/cron.root.txt installed on Sat Sep 25 10:42:18 2010) |
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# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) |
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50 23 * * * /bin/rm /home/motion/$(date -d 'yesterday' +%Y%m%d)*.jpg |
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55 23 * * * /bin/rm /home/motion/$(date -d 'yesterday' +%Y%m%d)*.avi |
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59 23 * * * /usr/bin/mencoder /home/motion/$(date +%Y%m%d)*.avi -noidx |
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-o /home/motion/full-$(date +%Y%m%d).avi -ovc copy -oac copy |
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If I execute each command manually, it works great, but nothing |
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happens otherwise. Can someone tell me why this crontab doesn't seem |
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to be executing? |
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- Grant |
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