On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:06:24PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Then the cron entry:
> 1 0 1 1-12 * $HOME/mailbackup
>
> do i need to put in /home/user/mailbackup or does $HOME fulfill bash
> within cron recipe?
According to the crontab(5) man page (Red Hat Linux 5.1),
Several en
Well I did it this way. Made a bash script, and ran it past cron
#!/bin/bash
mv /home/deklown/Msgs/backup-inbox /home/deklown/Msgs/backup-`date +%Y-%m`
mv /home/deklown/Msgs/sent /home/deklown/Msgs/sent-`date +%Y-%m`
gzip -9 /home/deklown/Msgs/sent-`date +%Y-%m`
gzip -9 /home/deklown/Msgs/backup
