TAR does not use $FILES

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#!/bin/ksh
# set +xv
# File: /bkup.sh
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#
DATE=`date +%m%d%y`
BULOG=/root/logs/bkup_$DATE.log
FILES=/root/logs/files
#
########### Start of the script. ######################################
echo " BACKUP started at `date`" > $BULOG 2>&1
echo "Where am I?" >>$BULOG
pwd >>$BULOG
find /var/subversion -print |egrep -v '*.dump' |egrep -v '*.tar' |egrep -v '*.bak' > $FILES
find /usr/nagios -print >>$FILES
#
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
#
tar -cvf /dev/nst0   --files-from=$FILES >> $BULOG 2>&1
#
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
#
echo " BACKUP finished at `date`" >> $BULOG 2>&1
#
####################### End of Script #################################


It looks like the tar command is NOT really using the $FILES ????


====Here is the tar command running on the system
tar -cvf /dev/nst0 --files-from=/root/logs/files
==== here is what is in $FILES
head files
/var/subversion
/var/subversion/brad
/var/subversion/brad/conf
/var/subversion/brad/conf/svnserve.conf
/var/subversion/brad/conf/passwd
/var/subversion/brad/conf/authz
/var/subversion/brad/dav
/var/subversion/brad/format
/var/subversion/brad/db
/var/subversion/brad/db/uuid
====here is the tar log file
head *.log
 BACKUP started at Wed May 28 12:25:12 CDT 2008
Where am I?
/root/logs
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
/var/subversion/
/var/subversion/tim.dump.bak
/var/subversion/oracle.dump
/var/subversion/brad/
/var/subversion/brad/conf/
/var/subversion/brad/conf/svnserve.confStart Free Trial