[aklug] Re: shell script and cron trouble

Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't work. Not sure what to make of this...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Royce Williams" <royce@alaska.net>
To: "Damien Hull" <damien@linuxninjas.tv>
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 7:58:01 AM GMT -09:00 Alaska
Subject: Re: [aklug] shell script and cron trouble

Damien Hull wrote, on 3/13/2009 7:37 AM:
> The following shell script runs fine if I run it manually. If I setup a cron job it ends before tar finishes. Well, that's a guess but the resulting backup is too small. It's also a bad tar file. I hope someone can tell me why it isn't working.
>
> SERVER - Ubuntu running the zimbra email system.
>
> SCRIPT - IF YOU CAN CALL IT THAT
>
> #! /bin/sh

Call it in verbose mode and reschedule the cron to trigger now + 5 minutes.

#! /bin/sh -x

Also make sure that all commands have explicit paths.

Royce

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