On 10/25/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote: > I have a cron job that calls a shell script - the script invokes dump. > > I'd like to do two things: > > - Have the script dump the results of the job to a text file. I tried > this with /path/to/dump my switches -v >> /home/me/dump.log > > But that just produced an empty file. And if you try to include error too using 2>&1 : /path/to/dump my switches -v >> /home/me/dump.log 2>&1 > > > - Have the dump file be date-stamped with the date it was executed. Right > now, I manually edit the script to change the filename to the date the > dump will be taken. something like : echo `date +%F` > /tmp/dump-`date +%F` > > > To get a differential dump, would I have dump produce its output to the > same file each time? I would not want to overwright the existing > contents. I'm currently dumping to a file on an external hard drive, but > will eventually go to tape. > > Thanks for feedback. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you