Re: Dirvish backup script don't run correct with CronJob ?

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978%infinito.it@localhost>]

Sounds to me like the backup process has no tty and therefore exits
immediatly. However the only idea that come into my mind is to try
running with some wrapper as sudo, but I'm not sure this will solve
the problem.

Luca

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Maurizio Caloro <mauric%gmx.ch@localhost> 
wrote:
> Hello Forum
> My manuall Dirvish Backupjob starts without error! and the folder appair!
>
> if my Dirvish Backupjob starts with Cron the job is starting but no backup
> folders appair on the destination.
>
> Backupscript
> hp7900# cat /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup
> #!/usr/pkg/bin/bash
>
> # /usr/pkg/sbin/dirvish-expire >>/var/log/DirVishExp.txt
> /usr/pkg/sbin/dirvish-runall >/var/log/DirVishRun.txt
>
> permission
> hp7900# ls -la /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  132 Feb 17 19:05 /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup
>
> you see i try more than one possibilities but without success.
> the folder on my destination dont appair!
>
> hp7900# ls -la |grep DIRVISH
> # DIRVISH BACKUP
> #0      4       *       *       *       /usr/pkg/sbin/dirvish-expire 
> >/var/log/dirvish-expire.txt
> 15      19      *       *       *       /usr/pkg/bin/bash 
> /usr/pkg/sbin/dirvish-runall >/var/log/dirvish-runall.txt
> 45      19      *       *       *       /bin/sh /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup
> 05      21      *       *       *       /bin/sh /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup 
> 2>&1
>
> cron seems to be run without error
> Feb 17 19:43:23 hp7900 crontab[864]: (root) LIST (root)
> Feb 17 19:45:00 hp7900 cron[28852]: (root) CMD START (/bin/sh 
> /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup )
> Feb 17 19:45:00 hp7900 cron[2451]: (root) CMD FINISH (/bin/sh 
> /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup )
> Feb 17 19:50:00 hp7900 cron[6462]: (root) CMD START (/usr/libexec/atrun)
> Feb 17 19:50:00 hp7900 cron[3195]: (root) CMD FINISH (/usr/libexec/atrun)
> Feb 17 21:02:00 hp7900 cron[466]: (root) RELOAD (tabs/root)
> Feb 17 21:05:00 hp7900 cron[3643]: (root) CMD START (/bin/sh 
> /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup 2>&1)
> Feb 17 21:05:00 hp7900 cron[6000]: (root) CMD FINISH (/bin/sh 
> /usr/pkg/etc/dirvish/mybackup 2>&1)
>
> hp7900# cat DirVishRun.txt
> 21:05:00 dirvish --vault Save
> 21:05:00 done
>
> for any help i'am happy
> regards
> Mauri