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From: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] cron not doing backup
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:01:39
Message-Id: 41965A0B.2030202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] cron not doing backup by Ben Munat
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4 Ben Munat wrote:
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6 | PS: or maybe there's somewhere that cron puts the output when it can't
7 | mail it?
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9 If you're running the script as root, mail it couldn't deliver would be put in
10 /root/dead.letter.
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13 | Jonathan Rogers wrote:
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16 |> Yes, the programs in /etc/cron.* are running as root, but probably not
17 |> with exactly the same environment as when you run them from a login
18 |> shell. The cron daemon should mail the output from your script if it
19 |> fails. If you can get the error messages, I might be able to help.
20 |>
21 |> Jonathan Rogers
22 |>
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25 - --
26 Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet.
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28 Aaron Walker < ka0ttic@g.o > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/
29 Gentoo/BSD | cron | shell-tools http://butsugenjitemple.org/~ka0ttic/
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-server] cron not doing backup Ben Munat <bent@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-server] cron not doing backup Jacob Joseph <jmjoseph@××××××××××.edu>