>Funny, just before I got your email, I set up the cron the following >way: >45 0 * * 2-6 /usr/sbin/amdump BIG1 >& /tmp/debug > >This morning, I have the following in /tmp/debug >amdump: could not find directory /etc/amanda/BIG > >I am not sure why BIG1 is being truncated to BIG, and why did it just >start to happen.
Two things. The output redirect you added, ">&", is a csh-ism. Is your cron running the amanda entries with that shell, or is it running them with /bin/sh? One way to tell would be to add a temporary entry like this: ... ps -p $$ > /tmp/cron.shell.test Second, it looks like the '1' on the end of "BIG1" got mis-interpreted by the shell (or you have a typo). The '1' got put together with the output redirection as though you had done this: /usr/sbin/amdump BIG 1>& /tmp/debug which means "redirect file descriptor 1 (stdout) to this file". That also implies cron is using some sh variant (sh, ksh, bash) rather than csh, so you should really be using this syntax (which is the equivalent of ">&"): /usr/sbin/amdump BIG1 > /tmp/debug 2>&1 >Karl Bellve John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
