> I'm getting a value of 0 returned, but from a command line the executable
> works fine and does what it is suposed to do is there any other way i can do
> this or ami i doing it work ??
Well, as far as I know, command-line returnes 0 on success and other on
failure.
So if your exec ( $command,
If it's internal stuff to your application, you can write in a 777
directory (such as /tmp) and retrieve it from there. If you want to
write in a specific directory, you can set up a cron job to copy the
file from the 777 directory to wherever you please from time to time.
I'm not aware of any
> Hi I'm trying to create a script which my cron will run once a day to
backup
> my MySQL database, but the exec command doesn't want to work no matter
what I
> try...
Uh.
cron + PHP is cool, but using cron to run PHP to run mysqldump is kinda
silly... :-)
Just put the mysqldump line in you
if you have a shell account write a batch file and install it in the crontab
of the user whihc mysql runs under.
i did this at work for a postgresql database and it owrks perfectly.
something like this will work.
crontab -u -e
add:
30 7-19/2,23 * * * /backup/dumpit
which runs /backup/dumpit
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