[Systems] lightwave backups failing!

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Wed Nov 17 10:47:11 EST 2010


On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:47 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:

> If the backup job depends on a specific value of $HOME (why?), it should
> set it explicitly. Alternatively we could move it from /etc/cron.daily
> to the crontab of root (IIRC Vixie cron - which we use on lightwave -
> allows root to have a regular crontab).

It's probably due to gpg. HOME should be set to /root.

We should probably revert to cron, as anacron likes to fire at random
times during the day, when the machines are already overloaded.

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