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Re: backing up



On 27/05/12 01:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 19:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
If you added
cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup
to a script, than the backup must be in ~/.

Perhaps the script runs "cd /var/lib/gdm3" and you added "cp -R
~/.thunderbird .thunderbird.backup", the backup without the path?

You should post what exactly you edited.

- Ralf



You're partly right :)

frank@sid:/etc/gdm3/PostSession$
cat Default
#!/bin/sh
cp -R /home/frank/.thunderbird  thunderbird.backup
exit 0

frank@sid:/etc/gdm3/PostSession$

I failed to add "/home/frank" or ~ to the destination, perhaps
thinking wrongly cp would copy to the original directory.
My mistake...now fixed...

cp -R /home/frank/.thunderbird  /home/frank/.thunderbird.backup
Always would do this for /frank, even if another user would close a
session?

PS: Perhaps it's impossible for another user to write to /frank?



Just for fun I created a new user (my wife)..and ran a session under "her" account...she could not write to my directory so nothing happened. This whole thread has convinced me I need to learn more about bash and scripting :)



--
Cheers
Frank


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