Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle <mailinglists@...> writes:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I need to write a script that I will manually start (or a cron job in
> future) but I need it to do a number of things in order one after
> another. How do i do that so everything gets dont as the steps depend
> on each other.
>
> Example:
>
> cd /system_backups/
>
> tar cvf apache-conf.tar /etc/httpd/conf/*
> gzip -v9 apache-conf.tar
>
> tar cvf apache-data.tar /var/www/*
> gzip -v9 apache-data.tar
>
> then last step...
> tar cvf <current_date>-system_backup.tar <all> the gzip files above
> gzip -v9 <current_date>-system_backup.tar
>
> scp <current_date>-system_backup.tar.gz user@...:/.
> etc...etc....
>
> My questions:
> 1. How do I execute each statement and make sure subsequent statements
> are not executed until the previous is done?
by using &&
example
cd /system_backups/ && \
tar cvf apache-conf.tar /etc/httpd/conf/* && \
gzip -v9 apache-conf.tar
> 2. How do I error check so if a step fails the script stops?
I am afraid I do not have enough knowledge to help you in the above question
>
> 3. Since I run an SMTP Server on this box can I e-mail myself from
> bash the nightly results?
Yes
>
> 4. when I want to run the scp to send over the file to another machine
> for safety, how can I have it know the password to the machine I am
> scp'ing to?
You cant
You will have to ssh-keygen
Thanks and Regards
Rajagopal
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