Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/30/2011 10:07 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > hello list!! > > I'm attempting to find out why this cron job isn't running. the host is > centos 5.6 on i386 just so you know. > > > 0 3 * * * /bin/alldb> > /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%S).sql > Howev

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-31 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tim, On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 03:07 +, Tim Dunphy wrote: > * * * * * /bin/alldb > > /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%S).sql > Jul 30 22:59:01 VIRTCENT09 crond[8007]: (root) CMD (/bin/alldb > > /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date +) Think you

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-31 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Keith Roberts wrote: Woops! I meant Tim the OP - not Cliff :) > Cliff - you might like to check out my customizable mysql > database backup script (PHP5 CLI code) at: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1499959&postcount=3 Kind Regards, Keith Roberts -

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-31 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Cliff Pratt > Subject: Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:31 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:19:01PM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote: >>>

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-31 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:31 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:19:01PM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> >> Tim, the program is run by cron in a different environment to the >> standard online environment. Is /bin/alldb a script? If so, *any* >> program in the script should have

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:19:01PM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > Tim, the program is run by cron in a different environment to the > standard online environment. Is /bin/alldb a script? If so, *any* > program in the script should have a full path, or the PATH enviroment > variable should be specifi

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-30 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 07/30/2011 11:07 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > 03***/bin/alldb > /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date > +%Y%m%d%H%S).sql I think the date paremters (percent etc) is causing you problems here. Try it simple first: * * * * */bin/alldb > /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-t

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > hello list!! > > I'm attempting to find out why this cron job isn't running. the host is > centos 5.6 on i386 just so you know. > > > 0       3       *       *       *       /bin/alldb  > > /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%S).s