Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> > this doesn't seem to be true.... the job runs and produces output and >> > root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I >> > don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from all my >> > crontab jobs... >> >> I think the *.sh extention is what's wrong, try removing it. just name >> the script backup. That's what I did and it suddenly worked and is >> working since 4 years ago. > > Actually the dot: > > ,----[ run-parts(8) ] > | If neither the --lsbsysinit option nor the --regex option is given then > | the names must consist entirely of upper and lower case > | letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens. > `---- >
yes the dot it was implied in what I said ... but thanks for explaining, I can not explain that good >> I did it on sarge, which is still the main server os for me. > > Uh, sarge hasn't received any security updates in a while... > Well I did update/upgrade few days ago and few packages got installed. It's working pretty well for me so I think I'll schedule move to etch or lenny next year. Do you know when lenny becomes stable? thanks and regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
