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From: Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org back up
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:08:59 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL1SgUqzTn6iJHa2=bChVS5c3CVrZ=VApBBy-0FLOXyqkYHTxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5775.1350502602@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net>

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Hi,

Thanks a lot.

-----------------------------
*Sanjib Sikder
*Ph.D. Fellow
Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay*

*



On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> > Sanjib Sikder [2012-10-18 00:32:00 +0530] wrote:
> >
> > > Even after 26th minute, there is no sign of the code in work. Is it
> that
> > > $HOME is not allowed and I need to give full path ?
> >
> > Ah, I thought that you'd run it from your personal crontab. So yes,
> > write paths from root's point of view.
> >
>
> [I replied to Sanjib privately on the grounds that it's OT for the list,
>  but let me add a couple of notes to this thread before we shut it off
>  as completely OT: cron issues are hardly germane to org.]
>
> o Adding personal items to root-owned crontabs is a *bad idea* indeed.
>
> o One should try the script by hand before trying to incorporate it into
> cron:
>   much easier to debug.
>
> o cron operates in a restricted environment: just run `env' as a cron job
> to
>   find out what it knows (hint: not much).
>
> o Quite apart from cron issues, the backup method in the script is
>   fundamentally flawed in my opinion: iiuc, it flattens the hierarchy,
>   so if you have org files with the same name in different directories,
>   only *one* will be saved into the backup directory - hardly a reliable
>   backup.
>
> Nick
>

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-17 18:25 org back up Sanjib Sikder
2012-10-17 18:41 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-10-17 19:02   ` Sanjib Sikder
2012-10-17 19:08     ` Teemu Likonen
2012-10-17 19:26       ` Sanjib Sikder
2012-10-17 19:41         ` Teemu Likonen
2012-10-17 19:36       ` Nick Dokos
2012-10-17 19:38         ` Sanjib Sikder [this message]
2012-10-18  0:14         ` Suvayu Ali
2012-10-17 19:25 ` Achim Gratz
2012-10-17 20:05   ` Russell Adams

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