backup apparently not working

[Kerry Hoath]

Exactly what I said.
Just because you execute a script from crontab does not mean it has all 
environment variables set inside the script.

Your script is relying on the fact that the HOME environment variable is 
set, which i'm sure it is when you run the script from the command-line, 
however it might not be the case when the script is run from cron.

What user is running the crontab and what value do you expect HOME to be?
Also is the script running under /bin/bash and is the backquote expantion 
actually working?
Modify your crontab so it echos your command into a temporary file so the 
command that is executed is what you think it is.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: backup apparently not working


> what do you mean is it set in the crontab? I just execute that script from 
> crontab. it's the script that's not working.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: backup apparently not working
>
>
>> Is HOME set correctly in the crontab?
>>
>> Regards, Kerry.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:52 AM
>> Subject: backup apparently not working
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> First. I've partially figured out the problem.
>>> It's throwing a fit about removing leading slash.
>>> second, I've got the following line in a script:
>>> tar -czvf ~/backups/valiant/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz 
>>> ~/valiant/moo/db.db
>>> when I ran that from the command line, it worked. when I tried to run it 
>>> from a script, it "cowardly refused to create an empty archive," and 
>>> then decided to try to run every file in my directory, it looks like.
>>> Ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tyler Littlefield
>>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
>>> web: tysdomain-com
>>> Visit for quality software and web design.
>>> skype: st8amnd2005
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