cron problem

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From: steve emmerson
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1989 16:47

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I've been unable to get cron(1) to work correctly.  The daemon runs; checks
/usr/lib/crontab; and, apparently, forks off a shell process which receives
the command line.  The command, however, doesn't seem to be executed.

This (example) line in /usr/lib/crontab:

46 16 * * 2-6 system /bin/date >! /sys/sys0/syscommon/sysmgr/crontest.log

results in crontest.log being created at the appropriate time *but with
no contents* (i.e. a zero-sized file).

Does anyone have a solution?
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From: steve@umigw.MIAMI.EDU (steve emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice
Subject: cron problem
Summary: can't make it work
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Date: 2 Mar 89 16:47:01 GMT
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