On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:20:32AM +0100, Marc Coyles wrote: > I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely > fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it > always fails with "mysqldump: not found" - what am I doing wrong?
mysqldump is in /usr/local/bin, which $PATH does not contain when running from a cronjob. (PATH inside of cron has a very limited scope, I believe it's /bin:/usr/bin). Either set PATH to include /usr/local/bin, or just refer to the fully-qualified path of mysqldump (/usr/local/bin/mysqldump). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
