From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 9:21:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB3037B407 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15ookc-0006SP-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2001 19:20:02 +0300 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:20:02 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Tar over ssh crontab - how ? Message-ID: <20011003192002.E16935@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aZoGpuMECXJckB41" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Fortune: Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. -- A. E. Neuman X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386 X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 7:15PM up 28 days, 3:10, 3 users, load averages: 0.25, 0.16, 0.06 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --aZoGpuMECXJckB41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have ssh setup btw two hosts for root. I have a simple backup command tha= t I need to run via a cron entry. On the command line it runs file but in cron nothing happens absolutely. Please help. The command is: /usr/bin/nice --20 /usr/bin/tar -czf - /etc /usr/local/etc | /usr/bin/ssh H= OSTB \ '( cd ~wash/Administration/Backups; cat > ns2_`/bin/date +\%Y%m%d`.tgz )' The cron entry that doesn't work is: 18 40 * * * root /home/wash/Administration/b= ackup-ns2.sh > /var/log/ns2-backup.log 2>&1 A real testrun gives.... ns2# ./backup-ns2.sh=20 /usr/bin/tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive. ns2# I really need to either log the output or mail it to myself. MTIA -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you = can=20 hang yourself with the cord.=20 (contributed by Chris Johnston)=20 --aZoGpuMECXJckB41 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7uzqyn7LIsuxjem8RAv7LAJ0Y7XBZhJRbixYVLkCTltVGEvBr/QCgoqcU svLmnJWZQaWW/+61ZGMxiEo= =gQO8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aZoGpuMECXJckB41-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message