hi need some help with s3cmd. got a few questions.

how do i update it to the latest version?? i am using ubuntu server (latested edition off there site) and did a Apt-get install s3cmd but there is no indication as to what version it installed…

when running it i get the following errors

ERROR: /home/myuser/.s3cfg: Permission denied
ERROR: Configuration file not available.
ERROR: Consider using -configure parameter to create one.

figured this is because its not running as root, doing a sudo in front of the command gets it to work, i want to eventually script this so it gets run by cron, how do i get it setup so it does not try and run as root?

Hi

I run the most up-to-date version by running the subversion code. This also gets around any issues with having to use sudo, but I suppose it opens you up to any developmental instabilities. I don't have it set up for cron but I use it in scripts with 100% success.

I am just back after going round the houses looking at almost every other backup system. I am now back after realising that this is a great (and improving) script. Many thanks to the devs.

Hi Folk,
I am newbie for s3cmd tools, and assigned new task.
I want to delete all the xml-files from S3 which are older than 5 days.

Help Needed