On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethundr@gmail.com wrote:
hello list,
I am attempting to backup a centos 5.4 (x86_64) server running mysql with a cron job. Here's how the cron job looks:
[root@cloud:/home/bluethundr/backupdb] #crontab -l
- 3 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump jfwiki >
/home/bluethundr/backupdb/wiki-$(date +%Y%m%d).sql
However if I run the command from the command line it seems to work fine.
If I grep syslog for cron this is what I've found:
Mar 4 22:12:13 domU-12-31-38-07-49-CC syslog-ng[1174]: Log statistics; processed='center(queued)=16141', processed='center(received)=16141', processed='destination(d_boot)=0', processed='destination(d_auth)=3', processed='destination(d_cron)=131', processed='destination(d_mlal)=0', processed='destination(d_kern)=0', processed='destination(d_mesg)=200', processed='destination(d_cons)=0', processed='destination(d_spol)=0', processed='destination(d_mail)=15807', processed='source(s_sys)=16141'
What does /var/log/cron say, and is it sending email to root with the results?