On December 16, 2003 08:47 am, Mike Koponick wrote: > Here is an output of my /etc/cron.daily directory. As you can see, the > permissions are all correct. The problem file is the 000backup.sh > script. > > The scripts that are named 000report_gen and 00log_archiver work > flawlessly. These are two scripts that were made about the same time at > 000backup.sh. > > 000backup.sh works fine if you were to execute it locally. > > [root@console cron.daily]# ls -l > total 52 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65 Dec 12 09:15 > 0000postfix-restart > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 205 Dec 13 09:27 000backup.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158 Oct 21 07:40 000report_gen > Here is the script "000backup.sh" > > cd /var/programs/backup_program > ./backup_script.sh > ls -R /var/tftp/Backup/ > /tmp/backup_report.txt > mail -s "Weekly Backup Report" mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx < > /tmp/backup_report.txt Mike, everything there looks fine. What is in /var/programs/backup_program/backup_script.sh ? Just to clearify, executing "/etc/cron.daily/000backup.sh" as root, runs properly? You shouldn't need it, but you may also want to put a path for the mail command (just a good security practice) and add #!/bin/bash (presuming your sh is sym'd to bash) -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
