run a rudaux command manually while still getting logging

if you ever want to run a rudaux command manually while still getting logging (like how cron does it), you need to remove the backslashes from the time string. So for example in the rudaux_snapshot cron job, you'll see the line:

3 * * * * root cd /home/stty2u; /usr/local/bin/rudaux snapshot 2>&1 | ts '[\%F-\%H:\%M:\%S]' >> "rudaux_snapshot_$(date +"\%Y_\%m_\%d").log"

the 3 * * etc is the time specifier for cron to run its thing, the root specifies what user to run as, the rest is the command so you want to take the command

cd /home/stty2u; /usr/local/bin/rudaux snapshot 2>&1 | ts '[\%F-\%H:\%M:\%S]' >> "rudaux_snapshot_$(date +"\%Y_\%m_\%d").log"

and remove the backslashes from the date string

cd /home/stty2u; /usr/local/bin/rudaux snapshot 2>&1 | ts '[\%F-\%H:\%M:\%S]' >> "rudaux_snapshot_$(date +"%Y_%m_%d").log"

and run that as root in the terminal window

basically backslashes do something different in the command prompt than they do in a cron script -_- I know it's stupid, it's stuff like this why I try to avoid shell scripting as much as possible