Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:19:07 +0100 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: Joseph Simmons <josephdsimmons@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root's crontab and mysqldump Message-ID: <49A2E89B.6090204@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <1ba9cd9a0902230937xc817f3dxe26a54b734d5f8ef@mail.gmail.com> References: <1ba9cd9a0902230937xc817f3dxe26a54b734d5f8ef@mail.gmail.com>
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Joseph Simmons wrote: > I'm running a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump > as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine > when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab > -e) or in the system's crontab (/etc/crontab), I see that the script is ran > in the log but it doesn't do anything. I'm able to run other cron jobs as > root without any problem. This script is only suppose to create a file > containing the dumped database. > Include the full path of mysqldump in your crontab (either entry or script). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org
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