On Fri 11 Apr 2008 06:37:15 NZST +1200, Roger Searle wrote: > The resolution comes as soon as I change to non-compressed tar file along > the lines of: > > /bin/tar -cf /media/backup/backup-home-check.tar /home/roger 2> > /home/roger/admin/cron.log > > and now it works. So something is broked with what ever package does the > compressing - it would be interesting to figure this out, would anyone have > any pointers on where to look?
The gzip and bzip2 (de)compressions are built into tar itself. If this is indeed the problem then you have one hell of a shoddy tar, but I doubt it. Also, if it works outside of cron from your shell but not from within cron, then it's cron causing the problem somehow, probably because the runtime environment is different. Did you check the process limits in cron (ulimit in bash)? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
