I recently changed from Suse 6.2 to Mandrake 7.0 (and it is quite cool), with a fresh install, and now have an odd cron problem. My crontab has this in it: 30 22 * * * /root/backup and /root/backup is this: #!/bin/bash cd /pub tar cvzf mtn.tar.gz /home/mtn /pub/redmeadow /home/support /etc The problem is this: backup works fine from a command line, producing a 170Mg file, but when run by cron it quits after about 56K. I even changed the time it was run with the same results. It worked fine under Suse. Any ideas? Could cron be limiting the time the process runs? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bigfork, MT. --------------------------------------------------------------------
