-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's probably the environment that cron runs in that's different. Check to make sure that everything matches between cron's env and your command-line env. You may need to "man cron" and "man env" to help you.
Brian wrote: > I was running my script directly from cron around 01:00am every morning, > and noticed that when ever I tested the script from the command line it > would never ever fail. Chnaged cron to run my script every 15 minutes > (long enough to allow the previous backup to complete) and each one > would fail. So I installed the atd daemon and tried having cron send the > command to start my script to at, like so: > > echo "mydirvish.sh" | at now > > IMHO the usual way to use at (I do it in some other placed on my VDR > server). Well, since I changed that not a single failure at all. I dont > know what caused the problem, but it seems that the machine would run > the script OK, then something would fail, and from then on until the > next reboot every backup would fail. As the core was from Perl I assume > that or something it relied on was screwed. But running via at seems to > solve the problem completely. > > I still need to see if I can find someone who is interested in looking > at the cores I have. > > Thanks again for all the tips and help. > > Cheers Brian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRiZhVJ76rTZSI4F7AQJkxwf/To9x42v6Y5cgWfw23axJVAk15Du61GNO yGWiuQclDvcCK9WEwnwXYH7aJtsD6+sd2WhkhcCiO3Ru000/F69w1I0NGjc+Z5sq TwSy0qgXif7MzpOTHV/1f4cbrtYSKTkq+lO9yFWFH/hTdrkMibkzmqXRhvjzh84j MoizNIDF3IeyKBoxL605ZuxOfQpCDByIlaSOz6ww1p5ibGUBhJd2mPdVKH4pdgq+ zuFyMWyhxFXaJ4wjJueaIhbkr5aoN2L/P1vrdQwpyrkdlVQLamlLDpy1TIASEiR8 6f/dATQVUHe2aTMpWq7VAF6/MT1vQVAPXWetm3MLmhEA4F7dQ7G3hg== =eVSo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
