Oisin McGuinness wrote:
>Try looking
>at root's mail to see if you have gotten mailed any of the stderr/stdout
>from the cron job to see what the errors are.
Good call. I checked root's mail and noticed that it said that the tape
drive was still in use during the mt offline command. I tried a new cron
script containing only the following line:
mt offline >& mail jmorrow_at_alum.mit.edu
and it worked fine. So I split my backup script into two scripts, one to
do the tar command, another doing just the above line.
I won't know if this works for sure until tomorrow morning, but I think it
will be fine. Thanks to:
Oisin McGuinness
Charles Vachon
Roy Smith and
Steve Walling
for speedy responses!
Jeff Morrow
jmorrow_at_alum.mit.edu
Received on Fri Sep 11 1998 - 18:49:04 NZST