--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Al Sparks <data345 at yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Al Sparks <data345 at yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] cron job not working > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 9:26 AM > > 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 It was a file permission problem. But crond wasn't telling me. Thanks for the help. === Al