Re: troubles with tar, compression and cron
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> 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
Sounds like your cron job doesn't have an appropriate path. Try setting
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin explicitly at the top, adding any other directories
you need.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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