Hi all

I'm trying to print the completion of a simple RSYNC backup script to a log file

eg. "Daily Backup Successful: Sun Feb  5 09:03:00 NZDT 2006"

The following line works of OK if I execute it manually or if I run it as a seperate script with: "/usr/local/sbin/daily_snapshot_log"

but in the backup script it only prints "Daily Backup Successful: " and won't include the date stamp

I've tried $ECHO & $DATE varitions etc. prior to posting

I assume its syntax but I can't figure out what the prolem is and have had no luck with the man pages


>>>excerpt>>>

#!/bin/bash
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
#   dave's filesystem-snapshot utility, as used on ubuntu1
#
# ------------- system commands used by this script --------------------
MOUNT=/bin/mount;
UMOUNT=/bin/umount;
CHOWN=/bin/chown;
CHGRP=/bin/chgrp;
CHMOD=/bin/chmod;
ECHO=/bin/echo;
RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync;
DATE=/bin/date;


...(a whole lot of RSYNC stuff).....then ....

echo "Daily Backup Successful: $(date)" >> /home/dave/.daves_backup.log

exit 0

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cheers................Dave G

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