On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:08 +0000, Chris Norman wrote: > Hi, > I've got that, the only thing, when I run the script first hand, I get: > > : Bad interpreter: No such file or directory > > At the top, I have: > #!/bin/bash > > I tried: > #!/bin/sh > > But that got the same results. The permission bits are: > > -rwxr--r-- root root > > I'm running it as root. > > No probs, I have fixed that, just re-wrote it, and it seemed to work. I have > another problem now though: > > Tar says it can't "stat" ls, says there's no such file or directory. > > here's the script: > > #!/bin/bash > > cd /var/ftp/backup; > > for file in ls The way I gave you this was for file in `ls` The ls is surrounded by backticks so it gets executed and the result is a list that is passed as $file for processing in the loop. > do { > tar cf /home/backup/$file.tar.tar $file/ > } done > > What is the problem? > > Cheers, > > Chris Norman > <!-- chris.norman4@xxxxxxxxxxxx --> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michaël Hooreman" <mhooreman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:25 AM > Subject: RE: Backup script > > > fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <> scribbled on lundi 13 mars 2006 10:22: > > > Where would I put the weekly cron job? > > /etc/cron.weekly if anacron runs on your machine > > If not, a cron line 0 0 * * 0 will run it every Sunday at 00:00. See man > 5 crontab. > > --- > Michaël Hooreman > Keyware Transaction and Processing > Rue Laid Burniad, 4 > 1348 - Louvain-La-Neuve > Belgium > Tel : +32 (0)10 48 01 21 > Fax : +32 (0)10 45 77 67 > mhooreman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >