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Ha Ha Ha... what a doofus I am... I'd copied the backup script into |
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cron.daily, but not the "exclude-list.txt" file that the script was |
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referencing to see what not to back up! Derrrrr... |
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> Ben Munat wrote: |
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> | PS: or maybe there's somewhere that cron puts the output when it can't |
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> If you're running the script as root, mail it couldn't deliver would be |
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> |> Yes, the programs in /etc/cron.* are running as root, but probably not |
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> |> shell. The cron daemon should mail the output from your script if it |
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> |> fails. If you can get the error messages, I might be able to help. |
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> |> Jonathan Rogers |
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> Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet. |
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> Aaron Walker < ka0ttic@g.o > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/ |
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> Gentoo/BSD | cron | shell-tools |
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> http://butsugenjitemple.org/~ka0ttic/ |
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