Re: crontab

From: Steve Nottingham (steve_at_wakefieldrfc.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: 8 Apr 2004 02:44:39 -0700

"MadUNIX" <madunix@web.de> wrote in message news:<c52od0$2oip2e$1@ID-172702.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> I am doing adily remote copy of some files between AIX 5.1 boxes
> to get this auto, i have added this to the crontab -e for oracle user
> 00 1 * * * /usr/bin/find /archive2/archive2/* -mtime -2 -exec rcp -p \{\}
> backup:/oradata9i/archive \;
> next day it was reporting an email with the following error
> To: oracle
> find: 0652-018 An expression term lacks a required parameter.
> *****************************************************************
> cron: The previous message is the standard output
> and standard error of one of the cron commands.
>
> What could be wong?

Have you tried running the command from the shell ? Have you also
tried putting the command into file and calling that from cron instead
?

Steve

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