On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 20:23 -0400, Hai Yi wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Tony Cratz<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hai Yi wrote: > >> this might be too simple a question to ask, however i am doing it anyway. > >> > >> i want to run a cron job to back up the dump files from my database > >> tables on a weekly basis. I've never set a cron job before. So by > >> following the "goolge-search" result, I did these: > >> > >> I create a text file and add a line to set time, date and my script, > >> name the file "cronjob.txt" > >> 59 23 * * * /home/hai/Scripts/backup.sh > >> > >> from CLI: crontab cronjob.txt > >> confirm the job: crontab -l > >> > >> then I sat tight waiting for the magic moment. Nothing happened. > > > > What do your logs show? > > You have read your logs correct? > kind of embarrassment, where to look? >
Cron emails you the output from any cronjobs that produced output (including errors). Depending on your mail configuration, you'll find the mails in /var/spool/mail/$USER, and you can check them with the mail command or using mutt. (If mutt is configured already for checking other mail, make sure that your .muttrc has a mailboxes line with the path to your local mail spool in it. Then you can use mutt -y to view your mail.) --Ken _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
