On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Logan Tygart wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:13 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>> I have a job in root's crontab:
>>
>> 0 4 * * * /export/bin/backup /dev/hdc /dev/hde
>
> <snip>
> A couple of questions, out of curiosity:
>
> Are you stuffing this in /etc/crontab or are you running
> crontab -e as root?
The latter.
> Does:
>
> /export/bin/backup /dev/hdc /dev/hde
>
> run properly when you type that in the command line?
Nope, that was the problem. I had coded it so that if the lockfile was
already there, it exited without printing anything. Fixed, and the lockfile
is removed. Thanks.
So it probably _wasn't_ the no-NL thing.
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