backup apparently not working

[Tyler Littlefield]

sorry. not sure if i was specific enough from the first letter. it's 
supposed to run from cron, but as it's not even running from command, I 
haven't tried. :)

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
email: tyler at tysdomain.com
web: tysdomain-com
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skype: st8amnd2005

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: backup apparently not working


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