crontab problems, was (no subject)

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 18.08.2004 schrieb Jim Higson um 17:02:

> Ooops, sorry everyone - just found the answer - the editor was wrapping the text (since I usually 
> use it for email I set it up this way), changed editor and everything went fine.

> > I'm adding backups to my crontab with crontab -e called as root. This brought up the editor and I entered:
> > 
> > 30 05 * * * root pdumpfs /home/jim /mnt/backup-hdd/home/jim >/mnt/backup-hdd/homejim.log 2>/mnt/backup-hdd/homejim.errlog
> > 00 06 * * * root pdumpfs /etc /mnt/backup-hdd/etc >/mnt/backup-hdd/etc.log 2>/mnt/backup-hdd/etc.errlog

Both lines are wrong though. Once run by cron you will get a failure
mail. Don't use the "root" instruction in user crontabs. It is a correct
call in the /etc/crontab, but not in the /var/spool/cron/$USER crontabs.
cron already knows that it has to run the command as $USER, when it
calls the user crontabs.

Alexander


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