crontab配置+问题

提示：遇到的crontab相关配置和问题汇总

配置

去掉mail发送

crontab -e 中添加 MAILTO=“” 的配置

    MAILTO=""
	# run five minutes after midnight, every day
    5 0 * * *       $HOME/bin/daily.job >> $HOME/tmp/out 2>&1

问题

1、%符号无法识别

之前写了一条crontb命令，发现并没有每天执行备份

##copy nginxconf
* 1 * * * cp -a /etc/nginx/conf/extra /etc/nginx/conf/extra.bak.`date +%Y%m%d`

cron的日志默认记录在/var/log/cron

man 8 cron
	…………
 	You can find out which of them are you using, if you check /var/log/cron where is (or isn’t) inotify mentioned after start of daemon.
 	…………

查看日志发现报错

vim /var/log/cron

Jan  9 01:00:01 nginx_219 CROND[12288]: (root) CMD (cp -a /application/nginx/conf/extra /application/nginx/conf/extra.bak.`date +)

怎么我的date后面的日期转换没了哇…………man 5 crontab 看一下.哇。发现%是会被转换成换行符哇。难怪了……要对其做一下转义（\）

…………
Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, …………
…………

修改一下，明天看看结果

##copy nginxconf
* 1 * * * /cp -a /etc/nginx/conf/extra /etc/nginx/conf/extra.bak.`date +\%Y\%m\%d`