No, as I said, I ran it manually just fine.
The % is part of the cronsub command, denoting the start of the command
to execute. It's documented on the TS wiki.
The redirection has never caused issues before.
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User:Hersfold
hersfoldwiki(a)gmail.com
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From: Platonides
Sent: 6/9/2012 13:31
To: toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Crontab not running?
On 09/06/12 18:02, Hersfold wrote:
Hello,
I'm having some strange issues with my crontab. I've got this line in
there, which has worked for months:
0 */2 * * * cronsub -s HersfoldArbClerkBot % java -jar
HersfoldArbClerkBot.jar > HersfoldArbClerkBot.out
Last night I replaced the jar in question with a new version (same name,
location, etc.); since then, it doesn't appear that it's been running or
even attempting to run. Usually when it fails to run I get an email, or
at the very least something should be entered in that .out file;
unfortunately I got no emails, and the file didn't exist, yet my bot
didn't make any edits until I started it manually a short while ago. It
should have run just now at 16:00 UTC, but again, no dice. Is there
something wrong with cron where it's stopped functioning correctly?
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User:Hersfold
hersfoldwiki(a)gmail.com
Maybe the new HersfoldArbClerkBot.jar has some dependency which is only
fullfilled in the login server?
(thus it dies in the new version)
What's the point of that % character?
That redirection is also confusing, since cronsub would use
HersfoldAhrbClerkBot.out as output file, and you're also using a
redirection to the same file.
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