Re: [gentoo-server] cron not doing backup

[Jonathan Rogers]

stephen white wrote:
> On 15/11/2004, at 10:08 AM, Ben Munat wrote:
>
>> What's interesting is that cron ran my backup last night
>> successfully... but didn't send the output to the log.
>
>
> There is a size limit somewhere... I also have nightly backups running
> from cron but only get the output if it's a short run. I haven't cared
> enough about that one machine to bother fixing it.

There is a size limit for command lines. However, there shouldn't be a 
size limit if you use logger's stdin. The manpage doesn't mention one 
and logging a line at a time shouldn't require buffering more than a 
line at a time.

Jonathan Rogers