[CentOS] cron job not working

Al Sparks data345 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 17 17:26:34 UTC 2008


> Probably a permissions problem, as has been noted. What I can't
> understand is how the problem came to be so complicated. This,
> run as a root cron job, will produce the desired directory:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir -p /ora-local/db-test-backups/`date +%Y"_"%m"_"%d`
> 
> ...without the adjustments in the perl script.  AAMOF, it's even
> simpler if you can tolerate hyphen separators rather than
> underscores. (date +%F)

I'll give that a shot.  Note that I have not been running this as root
(though crond is running as root).

Most of the time, if it's a permissions problem, crond will send an
email telling me it's a permissions problem.
    === Al




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