On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 04:49:22PM +0000, wbh wrote:
OF=/backup/trx-$(date +%d%m%y).tgz tar -cvzf $OF /var/www/ /home/cvs
^
Just a thought, in a cron job, where does stdout go and can it fill up???
Usually defaults to /var/log/messages. Maybe you'll see an error there. You might want to change it to:
tar -cvzf $OF /var/www/ /home/cvs > /tmp/some_logfile 2>&1