On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 22:39, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > and done 'chmod +x backup'. Thing that I'm still wondering about is > the bit about "/tmp/mybackup/$FILE" in the script. Shouldn't > mybackup read as something else ? Yep, should be /tmp/backup/$FILE, as I originally wrote ;) Looks like you misread it :) > Also the crontab looks like this > 14 0 * * * root /usr/bin/backup > > to make a daily backup. Is that correct or am I just completely > wrong here ? You don't need 'root' with vixie cron - every user has their own crontab, hence you just need to put this in root's cron and all will be well. @daily /usr/bin/backup .. is easier though :) Cheers, Alex.
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