run-parts gives error on bash script

ChoKamir · 02-02-2005, 08:25 AM

Hello

I made a script that will backup my system monthly, placed it in cron.monthly. Anyway whenever i run the script manually by .sysbackup it works. But whenever i try run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly it gives the following error:
run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.montly/sysbackup: Exec format error
run-parts: /etc/cron.monthly/sysbackup exited with return code 1

to complete the information the script is:

Code:

#Moves teh other backups one place up
/bin/mv /backup/system/sys.1.tar.gz /backup/system/sys.2.tar.gz
/bin/mv /backup/system/sys.tar.gz /backup/system/sys.1.tar.gz

#Makes the new backup
/bin/tar -cPzf /backup/system/sys.tar.gz /bin /boot /etc /home /var /usr /sbin /lib
/bin/chgrp admin /backup/system/sys.tar.gz

What is wrong with this script? Why can i execute it manually and not with run-parts.

Thanks a lot
ChoKamir

nixcraft · 02-02-2005, 08:42 AM

chmod +x /path/to/sysbackup

ChoKamir · 02-02-2005, 09:06 AM

Thanks for your reply, but the permissions of the file are already set to execute, otherwise the . sysbackup command would not have worked.

But thanks for responding anyways

ChoKamir

jofisch · 02-02-2005, 09:14 AM

write this in the first line:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

bye
jofisch

ChoKamir · 02-02-2005, 09:22 AM

Thanks a lot that did the job

ChoKamir

jpeach · 07-16-2008, 08:25 AM

Thanks jofisch. That solved the problem for me too.

Mark1986 · 01-31-2012, 01:36 AM

And even a few years later this helps people. I seem to have gotten lazy...

Thanks for helping out!

jaapdr · 08-18-2014, 06:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark1986

And even a few years later this helps people. I seem to have gotten lazy...

Thanks for helping out!

and even 9 years later... :-)

hackerb9 · 03-23-2016, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaapdr

and even 9 years later... :-)

Indeed. It's been a decade and this is still helpful. Guess somebody (probably me) ought to file a bug report to make the run-parts man page more explicit about what its requirements are and what various errors mean.

kevpatts · 04-11-2017, 07:18 AM

12 years and a month and you're still solving problems!