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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
