Thanks; I'll try anything because I'm really shootin' in the dark :)
steve
On May 26, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Sheila Fenelon wrote:
steve miller wrote:
I am trying to execute a shell script containing a simple tar command
using a cron job, and I ain't no good at this!
I created a file called exec_tar.sh and placed it at the web root of
my website. The file contained:
tar -cvf cah_web`date +"%m%d%y"`.tar -C /home/myweb/www
Is that the whole file? You need something like this
#!/bin/sh
TODAY=`date +"%m%d%y"`
tar -cvf cah_web${TODAY}.tar -C /home/myweb/www
You might need to specify the complete path to tar in order for cron
to find it.
I am attempting to tar the whole "www" directory, then I'll ftp it to
another site for storage.
I set up a cron to run:
home/myweb/www/exec_tar.sh
Make sure exec_tar.sh has execute permission and test it by running it
from the command line.
Give cron the complete path to exec_tar.sh
This isn't working...am I even close?
Close. :)
lost,
steve
Sheila
http://www.shefen.com/
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