May be a really dumb question here, but like all technical problems, start with
the simple stuff:
ps ax | grep cron ????
Is cron even running?
--
Nathan Vidican
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Brandon Hinesley wrote:
I forgot to mention that I've already tried giving the absolute path to
every executable mentioned in the script, but to no avail.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:56 PM
To: Alex Zbyslaw
Cc: Brandon Hinesley; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cron Job will not run.
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Brandon Hinesley wrote:
The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however,
nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being
rotated. I don't know if this makes a difference, but the "Backup"
folder
is a file system on an external hard drive. I am also using samba to
share
that folder as r/o. [...]
Here's part of my /etc/crontab:
--------------------
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
[...]
rsync -av --delete $files/$docs $dbkups/0/
This is a FAQ, though I don't know if it's in the FAQ :-)
From the command line /usr/local/bin (where rsync lives) is in your
path. From Cron it is not. Either add it to the crontab or set PATH in
your script. The latter is recommended since the script works whatever
the running user has their path set to. There may be some other path
problem I've missed, but this ones sticks out.
--Alex
Blah - I dont know where rsync lives - let's assume it lives in
/usr/local/sbin - change the line in cron to:
/usr/local/sbin/rsync -av --delete $files/$docs $dbkups/0/
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