From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from spaceymail-a5.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B28C10AB5 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:31:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from tdsportable (97-118-25-167.hlrn.qwest.net [97.118.25.167]) by spaceymail-a5.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3719D87079 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:32:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <879ED343CB4F40F886B951480AB68CEF@tdsportable> From: "Tyler Littlefield" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <997FD392DD914C4985EC173F49BFC29E@tdsportable> Subject: Re: backup apparently not working Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:33:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:31:21 -0000 what do you mean is it set in the crontab? I just execute that script from crontab. it's the script that's not working. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield email: tyler@tysdomain.com web: tysdomain-com Visit for quality software and web design. skype: st8amnd2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:32 PM Subject: Re: backup apparently not working > Is HOME set correctly in the crontab? > > Regards, Kerry. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tyler Littlefield" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:52 AM > Subject: backup apparently not working > > >> Hello, >> First. I've partially figured out the problem. >> It's throwing a fit about removing leading slash. >> second, I've got the following line in a script: >> tar -czvf ~/backups/valiant/`date '+%m-%d-%Y_%H'`.tar.gz >> ~/valiant/moo/db.db >> when I ran that from the command line, it worked. when I tried to run it >> from a script, it "cowardly refused to create an empty archive," and then >> decided to try to run every file in my directory, it looks like. >> Ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Tyler Littlefield >> email: tyler@tysdomain.com >> web: tysdomain-com >> Visit for quality software and web design. >> skype: st8amnd2005 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup