On 03/31/2014 04:01 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, this is really irritating me... > > 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. > > So what am I missing/doing wrong? >
You need to use the full path to commands in your script or set an environment variable. In my case using full paths to executables was enough. i.e. # perform tar.tgz backup of /etc /bin/tar -czpvf $BKUP_DIR_etc/$BKUP_DateTime-dev-ecat-etc.tgz /etc Dan
