Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-31 Thread Owen Townend
On 31/03/2008, Haines Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone kindly communicated to me privately, and I realized that I was not being sufficiently complete regarding my problem. In my backup script, I have the line: find / -print | egrep -v ^/media|... 21 | cat -vt What this command

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-31 Thread Haines Brown
Owen, Thanks for the clear explanation of the redirection. I should be all set now. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-30 Thread Haines Brown
For a long time I've done back ups by having cron run a script regularly. At a certain point (can't recall the circumstances) that ceased to work, and I've had to initiate the backups by hand. What happens is that Cron Daemon sends me a message that reports backup progress, That is, I suppose

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:28:35AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: For a long time I've done back ups by having cron run a script regularly. At a certain point (can't recall the circumstances) that ceased to work, and I've had to initiate the backups by hand. What happens is that Cron Daemon

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-30 Thread Haines Brown
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cron will send you any output your script has. You just have to rewrite your script so that it doesn't produce any output. Thanks Andrei, but that was my question. I don't know how to do that. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM --

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-30 Thread Haines Brown
Someone kindly communicated to me privately, and I realized that I was not being sufficiently complete regarding my problem. In my backup script, I have the line: find / -print | egrep -v ^/media|... 21 | cat -vt What this command does is to concatenate stdout + errors and redirect them to