Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 09:02:11 -0400 From: John <papalia@udel.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cron/Tar/Shell Script Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000708085531.00abb8a0@mail.udel.edu>
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Hey all, I'm missing something simple, but I'm stumped as to where I'm going wrong.... Every night I run a backup by using tar via a cron-invoked script. The script is: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/tar -c / -X /root/exclude 2>&1 | sendmail root /usr/bin/mt rewoffl Cron calls it by: 0 4 * * * sh /root/backup.routine I get an email at root every night, however it comes through empty. This is odd since I know every time I manually run tar I get about 10 "minor number too large" errors when it tries to archive /dev. Any ideas where my error messages might be going to? Thanks in advance!!! --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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