Re: [twuug] Capturing Standard Output on tar job

["Mark A.Davis" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:25:55 -0500
"Anthony Abby" <anthonyabby@aplusdata.com> wrote:

> Sorry if this seems to be a silly question, but 
> what's the best way of capturing standard output 
> from a tar job to a file? 
>  
> I'm running a cron job to tar my home directory on 
> a daily basis (laptop) and back it up on my 
> desktop. 
>  
> tar cvj ./Documents ./dilbert ./evolution ./nltu 
> ./Wallpapers > "/mnt/smb1/Documents and 
> Settings/Owner/My Documents/backup.tar.bz2" 

There is your problem, you are redirecting the output of the tar command. 
If you don't redirect, then the messages will be Emailed to you
automatically by cron.  Try:

tar cvjf "/mnt/smb1/Documents and Settings/Owner/My
Documents/backup.tar.bz2" /Documents ./dilbert ./evolution ./nltu


Note the "f" option.

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