Of course, leave off the $ when defining a variable in Bash! I'm using the following tar invocation:
tar --one-file-system -cvjf foo.tar.bz2 foo/ Is there a way to tar up symbolic links as links? What about permissions? Should I run this as root in runlevel 1? April 4, 2020 2:10 PM, "Galen Seitz" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/4/20 11:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> #!/bin/bash >> >> $dump_dir="/home/Shared/backup/" > > ^ -- I don't think you want that dollar sign. > > [galens@toto ~]$ dump_dir="/tmp/foo" > [galens@toto ~]$ echo $dump_dir > /tmp/foo > [galens@toto ~]$ mkdir -v $dump_dir > mkdir: created directory ‘/tmp/foo’ > > galen > -- > Galen Seitz > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug I'm backing up my debian buster filtering gateway, though it doesn't exactly filter, and getting ready to set Buster back up from scratch without X Windows and Gnome 3. I've been having problems with power management via gdm most likely, probably fixed. Thing is, when I unplugged the cable modem the networking got borked up really bad. There's been spotty service, so I'm thinking my issue to look for is a network issue. Maybe network manager is to blame. Perhaps it's an IPv6 thing. Not exactly sure. Instead of starting over, could I uninstall X Windows from the existing system in console mode for troubleshooting? I think with X gone that network manager will go too which may be the source of my networking problems. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
