Hi, my backup script is working when this run manually and in cron jobs. But the script is not taking mysql dump when this is added in /etc/cron.hourly
++++++ while read x ; do mysqldump ${x} > "/home/backup/TEST/${x}_`date +%d-%m-%Y`.sql" if [ "$?" -eq "0" ] then echo "$x backup is OK" >> $STATUSFILE else echo "##### WARNING: ERROR ##### $x backup failed" >> $STATUSFILE fi done</etc/cron.hourly/dbfile ++++++++++ Also tried with mysqldump ${x} > /home/backup/TEST/${x}_`date +%d-%m-%Y`.sql -- With Regards, Ajeesh B.Kannan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines