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From: Tim Dunphy bluethundr@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 8:25 PM Subject: [CentOS] cron job not running
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.
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Something is probably different in your environment vs cron environment. Make a cronjob such as:
* * * * * env > /tmp/environment.txt
Let it run for a minute to get the values, then remove the cronjob.
Compare it to the results of 'env' on the command line. Probably a path or some other variable is missing.