Re: cron help

["Jay Kramer" <user=102@nabble.blu.org>]

 Tom, 
Thanks for the info. 
Jay 

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Tom Metro <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> James Kramer wrote: 
>  > I can run the script using 
>  > sudo /etc/cron.weekly/backup.  I will check the paths. 
> 
>  Then you should be seeing failure messages in an email to root, or syslog. 
> 
>  The only other explanation is if the script file isn't named "backup" 
>  but instead something odd that gets excluded by the regular expression 
>  used to enumerate the files to process in cron.weekly. See the 
>  run-parts(8) man page. 
> 
> 
> 
>  > I think that I need to be root because I am backing up the /etc 
>  > directory. 
> 
>  That's probably the easiest thing to do. You can increase security by 
>  running the overall script as a non-privileged user, which then calls a 
>  setUID script running as root to copy the /etc tree to a temporary 
>  location. Whether this is worth the bother depends on how much you trust 
>  3sync.rb. 
> 
> 
> 
>  > Which brings up another question: What are the good system 
>  > directories to include in a backup 
> 
>  This partially depends on your distribution. In addition to backing up 
>  /etc there may be databases in /var/lib that you want. You'll probably 
>  also want to have your package manager dump a list of installed packages 
>  in a format that can be later machine read to reinstall the packages. 
> 
> 
> 
>   -Tom 
> 
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