Re: Why following ksh script not works in crontab?

>> Why are you testing the time when it's run at a specific time from cron >> anyway ??? >> do you not trust cron to get the time right ??? > >Would you rather have him write two scripts? No, the way I would do it would be to have two sections to the one script the way all the files in /etc/init.d do it, that way in cron you can have eg 0 10,13 * * * mybackup_script cron and in the script have a function eg, backup() { ... ... } backup_cron() { ... ... } case $1 in cron) backup_cron ;; *) backup ;; esac