Issue fixed. Needed to set the PATH variable with the following first before
running the dump from cron:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/xcat/sbin/
Though a more verbose error message may have made this a bit easier to
troubleshoot.
-SS-
From: Sajesh Singh
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:04 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: RE: [xcat-user] dumpxCATdb not working from cron
Using the -V flag in cron returns the following error:
[1:01 PM] Sajesh Singh
Command failed: tabdump 2>&1. Error message: .
Error running tabdump to get list of tables
Which seems to point to the following section of code:
# Dump using xCAT utilities
my @output = xCAT::Utils->runcmd("tabdump", 0);
if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0)
{ # error
xCAT::MsgUtils->message("E",
"Error running tabdump to get list of tables");
exit 1;
}
I am able to do a tabdump of the site table from a cron script.
-SS-
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From: Mark Gurevich <gurev...@us.ibm.com<mailto:gurev...@us.ibm.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] dumpxCATdb not working from cron
EXTERNAL SENDER
You can try running "dumpxCATdb" with the "-V" verbose flag.
You can also try to see if DB is accessible from cron, by doing "tabdump site"
from the cron.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would
it?"
--Albert Einstein
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From: Sajesh Singh <ssi...@amnh.org<mailto:ssi...@amnh.org>>
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Date: 09/22/2020 12:26 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] dumpxCATdb not working from cron
________________________________
CentOS: 8.1
xCat: 2.16
Trying to do a nightly dump of the xCat DB from cron, but the dumpxCATdb does
not seem to work. It creates the directory as expected, but does nothing after.
No errors. I am able to run the script from an interactive shell successfully
as the same user it runs from cron as. Has anyone encountered this issue with
the dumpxCATdb script before?
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