Is HOME set correctly in the crontab? Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
