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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
