On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:01:03 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > 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? > > I don't have these mailed to me, but like I said, it absolutely does > produce output - the problem is, when run from cron, the resulting file > is only 20 bytes (empty), when I run the exact same script manhually, > it produces a file of about 500K that containes the contents of /etc..
So you have no idea what output the script is producing when run from cron? Not a good plan when it is not working :( When a script runs from the terminal but not from cron it is almost always because of a difference in the environments, but without seeing its output we can only guess at the problem. -- Neil Bothwick - How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? - Two: one to hold the giraffe, the other to fill the bathtub with lots of brightly colored machine tools.
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