On Sun 02 Sep 2001 11:45, "Richard Soderberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's the output of my first attempt at running smoke.sh from crontab.
>
> It wiped my entire home directory because /home/rs/build/perl-smoke
> didn't exist, so the cd failed.
>
> Oops.
>
> Just finished recovering from Mar 2001 backups of said directory.
>
> So, um, if the build directory doesn't exist, it will rsync --delete
> perl-current/ $HOME if run from crontab. This can't be good.
The README said something like "For the daring" ...
1. I'll croack in Makefile.PL on non-exist blead dir
2. I'll croack in Makefile.PL id smoke dir is same as installation dir
3. I'll **WARN** in both README and Makefile.PL
That be enough?
BTW I'm realy sorry for the time you had to spend restoring stuff, but at
least you now know that your backup procedure works (I hope).
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