Chris Allen wrote:

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:29:43AM +0000, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com

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Interesting! There is a series of log files started called panic, which list a panic because exim.conf file can't be opened, each time at

exactly

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when my backup is set to run.

It could well be that this is cancelling the entire cron job including your backup.

Yes. Excellent. Having somewhere for the 'v' option to send the output to has made the cron task happy. (As in >tar -cvzf $OF /var/www/ /home/cvs > /tmp/some_logfile 2>&1) I guess I had two ways of mending this then, what I did which was to give a file for the v output to go to, or remove the 'v' option, as someone else suggested. Now to the task of finding how to do a rotating cron thing that deletes the backup files when they are more than a week old, and my box backs up using a simple file at no cost. Unspoken dig at the extremely expensive backup software our ntserver runs. But it does have a *lovely* gui. (sarcasm intended).

Thanks to all for help. Jenny.