On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:31 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------