backup apparently not working

[Tyler Littlefield]

I am not running it from crontab. i'ts running from the command line.

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 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: backup apparently not working


> 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
>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
>> web: tysdomain-com
>> Visit for quality software and web design.
>> skype: st8amnd2005
>>
>> ----- 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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