Yes, I did remove the run-paths and only specify as "18 9 * * 1-5 root
/etc/bkupjob/backup"
but I still get following error,
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:18:00 +0800
From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron <root@thongsiek> root /etc/bkupjob/backup
/bin/sh: root: command not found
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Please advise and thanks for help...
rdgs
gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Statux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Crons job fail
> run-parts runs all scripts, etc, in a directory. It's only argument is the
> path of a directory.
>
> In short, you're misusing it :)
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, gary wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Anyone can help, I've created a crons job to do backup as scheduled, but
always failed to run, but I can run the backup command as
"/etc/bkupjob/backup"
> >
> > I created crons job as below, using crontab -e
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> >
PATH=/bin/bash:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:
/etp
> >
> > # m h dom mon dow user command
> > 44 5 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> >
> > 07 5 * * 7 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> >
> > 00 5 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> >
> > 00 3 * * 1-5 root run-parts /etc/bkupjob/backup
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
> >
> > The cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly are default once, I only
add the last line for backup purpose and my backup details as below
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> > #!/bin/bash
> > #
> > # Backup job for home and etc
> > cd /
> > tar cvbf 20 /dev/st0 ./home > /etc/bkupjob/bkhome.log
> > tar cvbf 20 /dev/st0 ./etc > /etc/bkupjob/bketc.log
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> >
> > When check the root's mail, it will show me the following error
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:01:00 +0800
> > From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Cron <root@thongsiek> root run-parts /etc/bkupjob/backup
> >
> > /bin/bash: root: command not found
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> >
> > I did the same thing on my test server (same os and setting) it work
fine..
> > Please advise.... as it can't work, I need to do it manually. ;-x... and
it is not the right way too..
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
> >
> > rdgs,gary
> >
> >
>
> --
> -Statux
>
>
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