Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:49:47 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Tar over ssh crontab - how ? Message-ID: <20011003204947.K8391@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011003173330.C84600@rand.tgd.net>; from sean@chittenden.org on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:33:32PM -0700 References: <20011003192002.E16935@ns2.wananchi.com> <20011003173330.C84600@rand.tgd.net>
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:33:32PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > I have ssh setup btw two hosts for root. I have a simple backup command that 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 HOSTB \
> > '( 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/backup-ns2.sh > /var/log/ns2-backup.log 2>&1
> >
> > A real testrun gives....
> >
> > ns2# ./backup-ns2.sh
> > /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.
Not giving us a lot to work with here. Is the cron job being run at
all? How do you know? Is there any output in /var/log/ns2-backup.log?
Have you added some debugging commands in your script (as simple as
some echo(1)s) to see if anything is going on?
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
cjclark@jhu.edu
cjc@freebsd.org
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