On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 19:45 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > > this doesn't seem to be true.... the job runs and produces output and > > > root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I > > > don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from all my > > > crontab jobs... > > > > I think the *.sh extention is what's wrong, try removing it. just name the > > script backup. That's what I did and it suddenly worked and is working > > since 4 years ago. > > Actually the dot: > > ,----[ run-parts(8) ] > | If neither the --lsbsysinit option nor the --regex option is given then > | the names must consist entirely of upper and lower case > | letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens. > `----
Okay, my shorthand description of my problem was perhaps too shorthand! The script isn't actually backup.sh but rather a link and as far as I can tell is okay: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/cron.daily$ ls -lt|head total 92 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 9 13:30 backup-rsync-hdb1_users-VERI -> /home/michael/bin/backup-rsync-hdb1_users-VERI* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 314 Mar 14 2007 aptitude* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 577 Mar 8 2007 chkrootkit* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1154 Mar 4 2007 ntp* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5041 Feb 26 2007 apt* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 469 Feb 26 2007 sysstat* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1450 Jan 21 2007 webalizer* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3961 Jan 20 2007 exim4-base* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3283 Dec 20 2006 standard* thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
