Am 05.03.2012 04:25, schrieb Tim Dunphy: > 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 at 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. > > > If I grep syslog for cron this is what I've found: > > Mar 4 22:12:13 domU-12-31-38-07-49-CC syslog-ng[1174]: Log > statistics; processed='center(queued)=16141', > processed='center(received)=16141', processed='destination(d_boot)=0', > processed='destination(d_auth)=3', > processed='destination(d_cron)=131', > processed='destination(d_mlal)=0', processed='destination(d_kern)=0', > processed='destination(d_mesg)=200', > processed='destination(d_cons)=0', processed='destination(d_spol)=0', > processed='destination(d_mail)=15807', processed='source(s_sys)=16141' > > I've tried bouncing the crond service but even if I set the cron job > to run every minute the backups don't run. > > I was hoping someone out there might have some advice n how to solve > this problem. > > thanks '%' is a special character for cron and has to be escaped. Alexander