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I was looking at a script I inherited from the previous admin that works quite nice. It is a basic bash script that that deletes the user from mail groups (mailman) and also backs up their current email into a nice tarball and then removes their mail / shell account from the email server.
Now the script moves the backup tarball to a directory called /var/backup and I will show what I see...
The -i makes the command interactive, always good while you are root and the * makes the wildcard select everything before the -01-25-2007_10-44.tar.gz
You can also try either quotes "" or the back ticks ` to isolate the file name.
Distribution: Fedora 6-7, CentOS 5, Red Hat 9, Ubuntu
Posts: 36
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Now that the coffee is kicking in...
After you have cleaned up the file, you should modify your backup script and replace the dash "-" with an underscore "_" between your user's name and the date. This will help prevent similar problems in the future.
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