On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:00:53AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:28:51AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > >> I'be brought up my backup script for discussion before, and folks where > >> helpful in solving a problem, but the solution created another. > > > > I did not read it... > > In brief, I was directing stdout and stderr to: > 2>&1, and this by > default creates a message, and when the message size limit was reached, > it stopped the process. > > What I have is a script in ~/scripts that is known to my private cron > db: ~/cron-brownh, which in turn is known to /etc/cron.weekly. > > >> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys|^/mnt" | cpio -pdmuv > >> /media/mirror/"$dirName" > 2>&1 | cat -vt > > > > I do not understand first ">" > > "First" >? Just one that I can see. Or do you mean in the first script? > My answer: I forget. In any case, it worked fine when run directly by > root (sudo).
Interesting and strange to me. > >> Here's the new script which only sends an error message: > >> > >> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys" | cpio -pdmuv > >> /media/mirror/"$dirName" 2>&1 | cat -vT >/home/brownh/.backup.log > >> > >> However, it seems to convert ownership of all files backed up to > >> brownh:brownh. > >>From what account did you run this/ > > > * root from real root > > * root from sudo > > * account brownh > > > > If last, files are owned by brownh. That is how it sould be. > > Well, I really don't know ;-(. I merged my private cron-brownh database, > and so it would be run by cron, which is owned by root. In my > ~/cron-brownh (owned by brownh:brownh) is the line: > > 0 4 * * 0 /home/brownh/scripts/backup So it is normal usser process by brownh. So change of owner is expected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
