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Hi Everybody,

I have a problem, my script works absolutely fine when run interactively, and
even in the background using nohup, but it fails when run by cron (as root).  

It tells me that 'dump' terminated with error code 1.

Also, I wanted to redirect the output from the dump command into a file, 
which I would have the script mail to me if anything went wrong, but it doesn't
like that either. If I redirect standard output, nothing appears there, if I 
redirect error output, it complains about ambiguos redirection.
I have tried in the crontab entry to redirect the output of the script to both a
file and null with to no avail. 

I am new to the NeXT's so I may overlook something obvious.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

Steen
Computer Speclialist
The Ohio State University


# NeXT network server backup
# Daily unattended backup
# Steen Hansen, November 1992

LASTLOG="/tmp/backup.last"
ERRLOG="/tmp/backup.err"
MAILTO="steen"

date > $LASTLOG
dump 0fsd /dev/rst0 2750 640000
code=$?

unload tape
mt -t /dev/rst0 off

if [ $code != 0 ]
then
   echo "dump returned error code $code" >> $LASTLOG
   mail -s "NeXT network backup failure"  $MAILTO < "$LASTLOG"
else
  echo 'backup completed' | mail -s 'NeXT backup completed' $MAILTO
fi