Check that all calls to programs like 'tar cpio' etc are explicitly called using full path from root. I believe that cron does not know about your environment as it does when you are in a shell.
If this does not work, post the scripts. HTH Dave. Original Message: ----------------- From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29 Mar 2002 00:44:05 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] What's different with cron? Hi, Some time ago a kind soul sent me a set of backup scripts which do a wonderful job of automating a weekly full backup and daily incremental cycle. They even restore! Proved that a fews days ago when I had a disk crash. These are launched as root of course, so after having run them a number of times from a console, and checked that everything worked nicely, I put the command in root's crontab. I have since found though, that when run in this way most of the directories specified are not backed up at all and it seems to vary from day to day. So something is different between saying: /bin/launch-bkups from a console as root and putting: 00 23 * * * /bin/launch-bkups in root's crontab. I've looked in /var/log/cron - logs there don't report anything abnormal. syslog shows no errors. Where else do I look, or can anyone point out the obvious to me? TIA Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
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