On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:29:52AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > > > hey centos > > > > long time no hear! :) I'm having a small issue where the backup jobs > > that I set to run in the crontab of the backup user do not appear to > > be running. Here's how I set it up (with crontab -e as the backup > > user): > > > > run amanda every night (check at 2:45 and backup at 3) > > > > 45 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amcheck /var/log/amanda/crontab/amcheck.log > > * 3 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump /var/log/amanda/crontab/amdump.log > > > > The executables are where they are supposed to be and run if you type > > them in on the command line: > > > > [amandabackup at amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amcheck > > -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 68624 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck > > > > > > [amandabackup at amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amdump > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 9637 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amdump > > > > Although I'm not sure what the 's' indicates in the permissions of > > amcheck. > > > > > > And here's a tail of the cron logs > > > > [root at amanda init.d]# tail /var/log/cron > > Jan 5 07:01:01 newamanda crond[13612]: (root) CMD (run-parts > > /etc/cron.hourly) > > Jan 5 07:17:09 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT > > (amandabackup) > > Jan 5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) REPLACE > > (amandabackup) > > Jan 5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) END EDIT > > (amandabackup) > > Jan 5 07:18:01 newamanda crond[1448]: (amandabackup) RELOAD > > (cron/amandabackup) > > Jan 5 07:18:39 newamanda crond[13686]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) > > Jan 5 07:23:01 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT > > (amandabackup) > > Jan 5 07:23:47 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) END EDIT > > (amandabackup) > > Jan 5 07:25:38 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT > > (amandabackup) > > Jan 5 07:25:53 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) END EDIT > > (amandabackup) > > > > thanks in advance! > > Not using Amanda, myself, it appears to me that the syntax of the commands > in your crontab is incorrect. Assuming that the last parameter on each > line is a log into which you wish to redirect the output of cron'd > commands, you need to add > or >> (if you wish to append) between the > command and the path to the log file. > > Otherwise, cron would be trying to run the amanda commands with the last > item (the log file?) as a command line parameter. As I don't run Amanda, I > don't know whether you're trying to pass those log files as command line > parameters to the amcheck and amdump commands or wish the output of those > commands to be sent to those files. Try to run that commands by your hand, and check what is the problem. -- Dominik Zyla -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110105/19bf2676/attachment-0004.sig>