From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 5:59:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F8237BEB0 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 05:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Received: from morgaine.udel.edu (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA45891 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:03:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000708085531.00abb8a0@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 09:02:11 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Subject: Cron/Tar/Shell Script Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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