Hello, I still couldn't solve my problem. I stripped down the script to the following:
$ cat ~/bin/tapetest #!/bin/sh cd / /bin/tar -czf /dev/nst0 dir echo "tar returned $?" Running it manually gives: $ ~/bin/tapetest tar returned 0 ...but when run from cron I get: tar (grandchild): gzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar returned 141 As said before, the same happens if I use bzip2 in place of gzip (except the above error message from tar is 'bzip2: Cannot exec:', of course...). Using no compression works fine even with cron... This is on a Debian testing i386 system. I'm using tar 1.13.25-6 and cron 3.0pl1-81. Any help is appreciated! TIA, Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
