On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > this doesn't seem to be true.... the job runs and produces output and > > root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I > > don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from all my > > crontab jobs... > > I think the *.sh extention is what's wrong, try removing it. just name the > script backup. That's what I did and it suddenly worked and is working > since 4 years ago. Actually the dot:
,----[ run-parts(8) ] | If neither the --lsbsysinit option nor the --regex option is given then | the names must consist entirely of upper and lower case | letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens. `---- > I did it on sarge, which is still the main server os for me. Uh, sarge hasn't received any security updates in a while... Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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