[opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-21 Thread Donald D Henson
I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup. I want the backups to go to one disk drive, Backup1, Monday thru Saturday and a different disk drive, Backup2, on Sunday. I used Kcron to enter the crontab data running as root. Here's what crontab looks like if I run crontab -l after logging in as

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:52 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote: > I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup. I think this is the second time you've posted this query. The first time it was suggested to use the full path for rdiff-backup, which is a good suggestion. But you haven't done that and

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-21 Thread Donald D Henson
Dave Howorth wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:52 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote: >> I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup. > > I think this is the second time you've posted this query. The first time > it was suggested to use the full path for rdiff-backup, which is a good > suggestion.

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-21 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-21-07 18:22]: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > > > Another suggestion. Start YaST. Go to system, sysconfig editor, system, > > cron and set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to yes. Report back what gets output > > when the scri

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Donald D Henson
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-21-07 18:22]: >> Dave Howorth wrote: >>> Another suggestion. Start YaST. Go to system, sysconfig editor, system, >>> cron and set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to yes. Report back what g

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 02:34 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote: Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, where does that ma

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-22-07 04:40]: > Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the > backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set > SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, where does that mail get

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 09:42 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR merely sets cron to report "successful" activity to root. It did nothing to your cron job. ... time a cron job is successful. You *will* change it when you

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:42:47 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-22-07 04:40]: > > Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the > > backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set > > SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, w

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Donald D Henson
Anders Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:42:47 Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-22-07 04:40]: >>> Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the >>> backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set >>> SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_E

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Donald D Henson wrote: I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup. I want the backups to go to one disk drive, Backup1, Monday thru Saturday and a different disk drive, Backup2, on Sunday. I used Kcron to enter the crontab data running as root. Here's what crontab looks like if I run cront