On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Cliff Pratt enkiduonthenet@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:31 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com 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 a full path, or the PATH enviroment variable should be specified in the cron. (see 'man cron').
Only execs outside of /bin:/usr/bin need to be fully pathed; cron exports a default PATH of /bin:/usr/bin.
Please see "man crontab" for the explanation as to what is going wrong here; look for '%' in the man page.
Ah! I never knew that! It's a good trap.
Greetings all!
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
Use at your own risk of course!
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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