Re[2]: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-27 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello Jack, Friday, December 27, 2002, 3:11:36 PM, you wrote: of people is going to get upset usually this sort of error is due to differing environment or permissions. If it's a user's crontab ($crontab -e) then you need to su to that user and debug from there. If it's root's crontab

Re: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-27 Thread J. Grant
Hello Jack, Thank you for the infomative reply. Clearly you have considered this more than me, but surely this is what the special headers are for? List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the users client that is broken if it does not support list replies correctly in this case. Because

Re: Re[2]: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 03:56, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hello Jack, Friday, December 27, 2002, 3:11:36 PM, you wrote: of people is going to get upset usually this sort of error is due to differing environment or permissions. If it's a user's crontab ($crontab -e) then you need to su

Re: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-27 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 07:04, J. Grant wrote: Hello Jack, Thank you for the infomative reply. Clearly you have considered this more than me, but surely this is what the special headers are for? List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.4. List-Post The List-Post field describes the method

[expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all , I have asked this question on the newbie list, but have had no luck so far The script below works ok from the command line but when I run it as a cron job, it starts ok, but stops after backing up a few directories. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? is it a bug with cron? btw, I'm using

Re: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know it's RFC-compliant to do this... it's also RFC-compliant to have a non-contiguous IPv4 subnet mask and you don't see people doing _that_ little bit of insanity do you?) On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 01:55, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all , I have asked this

Re: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
is it really broken? The reply-to should not be changed/added by the list. It is the mdk config problem I believe. JG Jack Coates wrote: Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know it's RFC-compliant to do this... it's also RFC-compliant to have a non-contiguous IPv4 subnet mask and you

Re: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread Jack Coates
rant This is a religion issue, really. I usually try to avoid those and live quietly with my choices, but this one bugs me because it causes either needlessly duplicated mail or replies to questions to be unpublished/unarchived. The RFCs for mailing lists and many MUA authors/contributors feel