Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script - SOLVED

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On 19/09/16 22:10, Clive Menzies wrote:
> It didn't find the exclude_list I created. I modified the script to 
> point to it but clearly the syntax is not right
>
> # Good rsync options for uhuru_backups.
>     rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete 
> --delete-excluded"
>
> # exclude list location:
>         exclude_list=/root/uhuru_backup/exclude_list
>
> echo "Currently at line 17">>$log_file
>
> The log reported thus:
> /root/uhuru_backup/uhuru.daily.sh: line 17: $log_file: ambiguous redirect
> rsync: failed to open exclude file exclude_list: No such file or 
> directory (2)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at exclude.c(1179) [client=3.1.1]
D'oh! I searched around a bit and realised I'd over-complicated it.

This works :-)

# Good rsync options for uhuru_backups.
    rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=/root/uhuru_backup/exclude_list \
         --delete --delete-excluded"

Thanks Thomas, I'd still be going round in circles.

Regards

Clive

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