On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:01:48 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > I have a script that simply performs some backups. The commands are > like this: > > # perform tar.tgz backup of /etc > tar -czpvf $BKUP_DIR_etc/$BKUP_DateTime-dev-ecat-etc.tgz /etc > > When I run this script manually, it does what it is supposed to, and > the resulting file is about 500K. > > When it runs from cron (roots crontab), it results in a 20 byte (empty) > file.
You're running tar with -v so it should produce output no matter what it does. Is that mailed to you? What does it say? You could add "set -x" at the start of the script for an even more verbose report. -- Neil Bothwick Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist?
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