RE: help on a script

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:25, Nick Smith wrote:
> > The script (let's call it /usr/local/bin/mail-backup).  Substitute real
> > values for the bits in square brackets:
> > 
> >         #! /bin/bash
> >         BACKUP_DIR=[backup directory]
> >         tar czf $BACKUP_DIR/mail.backup.tar.gz [mail directory name]
> >         scp $BACKUP_DIR/mail.backup.tar.gz [other machine]:[target
> > directory name]
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to insert the date in there somewhere?

Use $(date) - you may want to add formatting options to the date
command.
> 
> > Make the script executable and make sure the user under whose uid it
> > will run is able to connect with ssh without supplying a password.
> > 
> 
> How exactly would I do that? Make a user that doesn't have to supply a
> password? Like the apache default www-data? How would I set up the user?


On the target machine

   mkdir ~/.ssh

On the sending machine:

   ssh-keygen -t dsa
(leave the passphrase empty)

   scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub [other machine]:.ssh

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