sorry forgot to mention that cron IS running
root@amanda init.d]# ps -ef | grep cron
root 13686 1 0 07:18 ? 00:00:00 crond
root 13771 6676 0 07:34 pts/2 00:00:00 grep cron
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM, bluethundr <bluethundr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hey centos
>
> long time no hear! :) I'm having a small issue where the backup jobs
> that I set to run in the crontab of the backup user do not appear to
> be running. Here's how I set it up (with crontab -e as the backup
> user):
>
> run amanda every night (check at 2:45 and backup at 3)
>
> 45 2 * * * /usr/sbin/amcheck /var/log/amanda/crontab/amcheck.log
> * 3 * * * /usr/sbin/amdump /var/log/amanda/crontab/amdump.log
>
> The executables are where they are supposed to be and run if you type
> them in on the command line:
>
> [amandabackup@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amcheck
> -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 68624 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck
>
>
> [amandabackup@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amdump
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 amandabackup disk 9637 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amdump
>
> Although I'm not sure what the 's' indicates in the permissions of amcheck.
>
>
> And here's a tail of the cron logs
>
> [root@amanda init.d]# tail /var/log/cron
> Jan 5 07:01:01 newamanda crond[13612]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
> Jan 5 07:17:09 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT
> (amandabackup)
> Jan 5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) REPLACE (amandabackup)
> Jan 5 07:18:00 newamanda crontab[13652]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup)
> Jan 5 07:18:01 newamanda crond[1448]: (amandabackup) RELOAD (cron/amandabackup)
> Jan 5 07:18:39 newamanda crond[13686]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
> Jan 5 07:23:01 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT
> (amandabackup)
> Jan 5 07:23:47 newamanda crontab[13699]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup)
> Jan 5 07:25:38 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) BEGIN EDIT
> (amandabackup)
> Jan 5 07:25:53 newamanda crontab[13751]: (amandabackup) END EDIT (amandabackup)
>
> thanks in advance!
>
>
> --
> GPG me!!
>
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F186197B
>
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GPG me!!
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F186197B
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