Re: [webmin-l] fs backup in limbo state

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 28/Oct/2006 22:59 Pat Erler wrote ..
> hi,
> 
> i use the filesystem backup extensively (via ftp), but recently something
> went wrong. because of en external event, one job hung, i terminated it
> and since then (i think), no job is run at night (they are supposed to
> run sequentially at midnight).
> 
> in crontab -l i have the line
> 
> @daily /etc/webmin/fsdump/backup.pl 113791152285552
> 
> and when i run it from the terminal i get a "Terminated" shortly after.
> 
> i can remember, that i deleted some *.status files from /etc/webmin/fsdump.
> 
> and i changed my tmp directory some days ago (although the problem is 
> older).
> 
> any ideas, jamie?

Are there any other backup.pl processes still running? If a backup starts
and it detects that one is already running for the same job, the new one
will automatically exit.

 - Jamie