Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Ben Munat <bent@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] cron not doing backup
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:24:53
Message-Id: 41966043.1020908@munat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] cron not doing backup by Aaron Walker
1 Ha Ha Ha... what a doofus I am... I'd copied the backup script into
2 cron.daily, but not the "exclude-list.txt" file that the script was
3 referencing to see what not to back up! Derrrrr...
4
5 thanks for all your help,
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10 Aaron Walker wrote:
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14 > Ben Munat wrote:
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16 > | PS: or maybe there's somewhere that cron puts the output when it can't
17 > | mail it?
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19 > If you're running the script as root, mail it couldn't deliver would be
20 > put in
21 > /root/dead.letter.
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24 > | Jonathan Rogers wrote:
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27 > |> Yes, the programs in /etc/cron.* are running as root, but probably not
28 > |> with exactly the same environment as when you run them from a login
29 > |> shell. The cron daemon should mail the output from your script if it
30 > |> fails. If you can get the error messages, I might be able to help.
31 > |>
32 > |> Jonathan Rogers
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36 > - --
37 > Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet.
38 >
39 > Aaron Walker < ka0ttic@g.o > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/
40 > Gentoo/BSD | cron | shell-tools
41 > http://butsugenjitemple.org/~ka0ttic/
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