event that triggers program ZIP wont create zip output

[geeTee]

zip /home/homeseer/snaps.zip /home/homeseer/snapshot-*

works from linux command line BUT from inside a HS event, it does nothing. And log shows nothing.

how to debug?

thank you.

[rmasonjr]

You'll need to execute the shell instead of the command directly. Something like this:


Make your shell script executable and it should work fine.

homeseer@HS4PiV2:~ $ ls -lt backuphs3.sh
-rwxrwxrwx 1 homeseer homeseer 159 Aug 17 2020 backuphs3.sh

homeseer@HS4PiV2:~ $ cat backuphs3.sh
#!/bin/bash
BACKUP_FILE=HS3_`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz
tar -zcvf /home/homeseer/$BACKUP_FILE /usr/local/HomeSeer
rm -f $(ls -1tr /home/homeseer/HS3_* |head -n -7)