Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>  
>> > this doesn't seem to be true.... the job runs and produces output and
>> > root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I
>> > don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from all my
>> > crontab jobs...
>> 
>> I think the *.sh extention is what's wrong, try removing it. just name
>> the script backup. That's what I did and it suddenly worked and is
>> working since 4 years ago.
>  
> Actually the dot:
> 
> ,----[ run-parts(8) ]
> | If neither the --lsbsysinit option nor the --regex option is given then
> | the names must consist entirely of upper and lower case
> | letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens.
> `----
> 

yes the dot it was implied in what I said ... but thanks for explaining, I
can not explain that good

>> I did it on sarge, which is still the main server os for me.
> 
> Uh, sarge hasn't received any security updates in a while...
> 

Well I did update/upgrade few days ago and few packages got installed.
It's working pretty well for me so I think I'll schedule move to etch or
lenny next year.

Do you know when lenny becomes stable?

thanks and regards