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Re: 1.5.19: tar runs normally from command line but terminates early when run from crontab


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According to G.W. Haywood on 6/19/2006 3:53 AM:
> When run from the command line the job works whether gzip compression
> is used or not, and when run from the crontab it fails also whether
> compression is used or not, so I don't think it's anything to do with
> pipes and DOS/Unix line endings.
> 
> It looks like I'm missing something here.  What is it?

It's probably a bug in your cron setup, rather than a bug in tar.  Have
you run cron-diagnose?  Can you get simpler cron tasks to work?  Remember
that cron is run as a different user than the normal command line, so
permissions do play a role on what the cron script can do.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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