Re: troubles with tar, compression and cron

[Jukka Salmi <jukka-debian@2003.salmi.ch>]

Hello,

I still couldn't solve my problem. I stripped down the script to the
following:

$ cat ~/bin/tapetest
#!/bin/sh
cd /
/bin/tar -czf /dev/nst0 dir
echo "tar returned $?"

Running it manually gives:

$ ~/bin/tapetest
tar returned 0

...but when run from cron I get:

tar (grandchild): gzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar returned 141

As said before, the same happens if I use bzip2 in place of gzip (except
the above error message from tar is 'bzip2: Cannot exec:', of course...).
Using no compression works fine even with cron...

This is on a Debian testing i386 system. I'm using tar 1.13.25-6 and
cron 3.0pl1-81.


Any help is appreciated!

TIA, Jukka

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