Hi, tabanna!
Trying to kill the keyboard, tabanna ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> > think *strongly* about automating
> > the system.)
> ~ Wolfgang, thank you :)
You are welcome.
> I would like to Automate the following script using CRON :-
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # tar etc
> #
> tar czvf /zip/etcYYMMDD.tar.gz /etc /root /boot
You really *want* to check the backup as well.
> ~ What, please, should I write, and, in which CRON file, to archive, each
> day, with the Date & Time of that same Date ?
Many ways here. For the date you can use the program date
("man date" and "info date" for more info). You really want
to store the date into a variable, too. For the cron entry,
on my system there is a crontab for each user (you'd want root)
and an /etc/crontab, and also a cron.daily. The first two want
a script as argument, the last one is a directory containing
scripts (this is realised by using /etc/crontab).
More info can be found at "man -S 5 crontab", "man cron" and
"man -S 1 crontab" and probably in the documentation of your
distribution.
-Wolfgang
PS: There is no need to Cc mails to me, I actually *do* read
this list :-)
