Hello, could someone please advise me, why would my tar-command work fine on the command line: hXXXXXX:afarber {272} sudo tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date +%F`.tgz /var/www/htdocs . hXXXXXX:afarber {273} sudo ls -l /root/backups -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1087070 Oct 6 14:43 htdocs-2006-10-06.tgz But fails in the root's crontab: h754814:afarber {274} sudo crontab -l 3 3 * * * tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date +%F`.tgz /var/www/htdocs . Thank you Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cron Daemon <alexander.farber@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Oct 6, 2006 3:03 AM Subject: Cron <root@h754814> tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date + To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file -- http://preferans.de