A puzzle! Crontab and mkdir and files, oh my!

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 22:05 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> So many assumptions needed ...

Well, not to solve this puzzle.

> However, appending '/home/ubuntu/data/log/adfd_cleanup.log' bothers
> 'find',
> and the content of 'mkdir' is now one line complaining that
> 	find: paths must precede expression:
> `/home/ubuntu/data/log/adfd_cleanup.log'

Yes! That is what this crontab entry actually does. Plops an error
message into a file called "mkdir" in the crontab user's home diretory.

> [OT See what you made me do Karl??? Remember the ANZACs. Will you
> vote next weekend?]

Lol :-) Already voted!

Regards, K.

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