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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:55:21 -0500
From:      Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Crontab and jobs
Message-ID:  <3E2889D9.5060100@trini0.org>
References:  <3E288543.9020708@trini0.org> <20030117223800.GA82138@submonkey.net> <3E2886A0.1040304@trini0.org>

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Thanks to James and Ceri.
Use the full path to pg_dump -> /usr/local/bin/pg_dump

Works now.

Gerard Samuel wrote:

> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # To back up PostgreSQL database
> #
>
> date=`date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'`
>
> pg_dump -cO -U user database > /root/db_back/pgsql-$date.sql
>
>
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:35:47PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Im trying to setup a cron job to back up my db.
>>> If I manually execute the script it works fine, but the cron job 
>>> isn't executing the job.
>>>
>>> ## Backup PostgreSQL database
>>> */1    *       *       *       *       /root/bin/pgsql-back    
>>> 2>      /dev/null > /dev/null
>>>
>>> Anyone notice anything with this crontab entry???
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Show us the script.
>> It's probably your path.
>>
>> Ceri
>>  
>>
>

-- 
Gerard Samuel
http://www.trini0.org:81/
http://dev.trini0.org:81/



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