[Nottingham] Yellow Dog day

[Peter Chang]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Robert Ross wrote:

> Trying not to top-post :-)

And then learn the art of trimming ;-)

> Also been in a meeting for over 4 hours :-((
> 
> Eeerrr excuse my ignorance, what is 'chroot-jailed'?

It's a way of isolating a process to have access to part of a
filesystem. You shouldn't really need it for a cron job.

> Johannes:  Yep there is a /bin/sh and it is on 755 (Did that last week after
> finding stuff on Google - see I have been trying ;-)
> No, the line is not commented out with a #

No, Johannes was asking if your backup script starts something like this:

#!/bin/sh

and has the correct permissions. That hash-bang (#!) invokes the shell
interperter.

Peter



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