RE: 1.5.19: tar runs normally from command line but terminates early when run from crontab

2006-06-22 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Eric, Charles, Thanks for the help guys, that got me going in the right direction. On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to G.W. Haywood on 6/19/2006 3:53 AM: When run from the command line the job works ... and when run from the crontab it fails... It's

RE: 1.5.19: tar runs normally from command line but terminates early when run from crontab

2006-06-22 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, G.W. Haywood wrote: Hi Eric, Charles, Thanks for the help guys, that got me going in the right direction. On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. According to G.W. Haywood on 6/19/2006 3:53 AM:

RE: 1.5.19: tar runs normally from command line but terminates early when run from crontab

2006-06-21 Thread Stepp, Charles
From a Unix viewpoint, running from cron does not set the environment the same as with an interactive session. I have sometimes had to set TERM=vt100 (or whatever) and other environment variables to get things to run from cron. One trick it to capture your environment to a file, edit out what you

Re: 1.5.19: tar runs normally from command line but terminates early when run from crontab

2006-06-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to G.W. Haywood on 6/19/2006 3:53 AM: When run from the command line the job works whether gzip compression is used or not, and when run from the crontab it fails also whether compression is used or not, so I don't think it's anything to