I have implemented the changes you suggested and I am still getting the same file or directory not found error. I am running the script as CRON (which always runs as root) so you don't think its permissions on the directories do you ?
If I just run the original code it works sometimes and not others ? but then originally I was getting:
tar: .: file changed as we read it.
Hence the reason for switching to new code structure.
Please can you offer any further advise.
Many thanks for your help.
Hi !
i have to write a script that archivs homes not used since 3 years.
First, my script gathers the users that are concerned, using the following command :
ll -lt /home/*/.sh_history | egrep '2000|1999|1998|1997' | awk '{print $3}'
i obtain a list like this :
user_1
user_2
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I need to exclude de path " /root/BKP/ " in the file.tar.gz
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uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
crond
CRON(8) System Manager's Manual CRON(8)NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron
also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then
wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When execut-
ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if
such exists).
Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has,
cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.
SEE ALSO crontab(1), crontab(5)AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)