Hi,

after using FreeBSD for Backup purposes for a couple of years I decided to switch these machines back to Slackware because mounting Windows shares works much better.

I am using dirvish for backups. It is all set and runs if I invoke it manually.

dirvish is basically a perl script that uses rsync.

If I put

nothing happens. The output is

Output code is 1 which means "syntax or usage error". But that's about it,I don't see any other means to debug it.

Does anyone use dirvish on Slackware? I am also open to alternatives.


Ben

What about the log files in the dirvish vault? Do they give you any clues?

There is nothing happening in the vault. No directory is being made, no log entry.

I assume you've run the init manually? Add the following to the end of your cron job and see if anything gets written to that file.

:2cent: Sometimes if a script runs ok in a terminal and not at crontab means that some command isn't in the crontab $PATH.

Yes, I did.
I did that. It says


That is in fact strange. If I put something like
I get What's wrong here?

The $PATH in cron is PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin.
Take a look at the script, if there is some command in other directory, maybe this is the problem.

Try

That did it! Thank you.