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From: "James Seward" <jamesoff@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Marc Coyles
<mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk> wrote:
> I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely
> fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it
> always fails with "mysqldump: not found" - what am I doing wrong?

Things started from cron inherit a different PATH. Either add the
appropriate directories to PATH or specify the full path to mysqldump.

-- 
/JMS