Bayes daily cron job

[John Van Ostrand]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:13 -0600, Integrated Technologies wrote:
> I am running the following:
> #! /bin/bash
> 
> # re-builds the Bayes database daily
> 
>    /usr/bin/sa-learn --sync --force-expire \
> 
>   -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> 
> I placed the following script in my /etc/cron.daily folder and it is
> giving me this error:
> /etc/cron.daily/bayes.cron: line 4: -p: command not found
> When I remove the –p switch, I receive the following error:
> /etc/cron.daily/bayes.cron: line
> 4: /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf: Permission denied


Your problem is that the backslash (\) is not working. It indicates line
continuance when followed by a line feed. Here is what I think is wrong:

1. There is a space, tab or other whitespace character after the \.
2. Your script has CRLF line breaks because it was created in windows.

I think it's option 1. delete the blank after the \ or simply remove the
backslash and join the two lines.


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