Using 7zip in Cron Jobs Fails

Mar 21, 2010   //   by Mike McMurray   //   Interesting Stuff, Sys Admin  //  No Comments

For those people tearing their hair out trying to use the 7z util in a cron job, have a look in the Ubuntu forums for the solution. Strangely as soon as you start sending the output to a log file, the 7z part of your script will work.

I struck the problem in the Hardy version of Ubuntu Server.

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