Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: > Sanjib Sikder [2012-10-18 00:32:00 +0530] wrote: > > > Even after 26th minute, there is no sign of the code in work. Is it that > > $HOME is not allowed and I need to give full path ? > > Ah, I thought that you'd run it from your personal crontab. So yes, > write paths from root's point of view. >
[I replied to Sanjib privately on the grounds that it's OT for the list, but let me add a couple of notes to this thread before we shut it off as completely OT: cron issues are hardly germane to org.] o Adding personal items to root-owned crontabs is a *bad idea* indeed. o One should try the script by hand before trying to incorporate it into cron: much easier to debug. o cron operates in a restricted environment: just run `env' as a cron job to find out what it knows (hint: not much). o Quite apart from cron issues, the backup method in the script is fundamentally flawed in my opinion: iiuc, it flattens the hierarchy, so if you have org files with the same name in different directories, only *one* will be saved into the backup directory - hardly a reliable backup. Nick
