Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:38:03 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd Message-ID: <200810070938.m979c30l096572@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <720051dc0810070228o68f0a67bx8cab7869ace8269f@mail.gmail.com> (jamesoff@gmail.com) References: <003001c9285d$f2a3a410$d7eaec30$@wakefield.sch.uk> <720051dc0810070228o68f0a67bx8cab7869ace8269f@mail.gmail.com>
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> > 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. In a script aimed to be run by cron, try to always use full path to the commands. It's the safest solution. Olivier
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