From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 12 17:25:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4200537B402 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id D810D5346; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:25:29 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backups of log files References: <200203130057.TAA27975@uce55.uchaswv.edu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Mar 2002 02:25:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200203130057.TAA27975@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nathan Mace writes: > the problem is that the next time it does it, it overrides the 1st > backup, so how can i get it name them backup1.tar or name them after > the date like 1102.tar for january 1st 2002? 'perldoc POSIX', 'man strftime', and ask questions like this on questions@ please :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message