Thank you all, Yes, I used the absolute path in my script and now works ok :-) Thank you again Sorin -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank Wittig Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 4:01 PM To: Sorin N. Ciolofan Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [GENERAL] backup of postgres scheduled with cron Hello Sorin! Sorin N. Ciolofan wrote: > #!/bin/bash > time=`date '+%d'-'%m'-'%y'` > cd /home/swkm/services/test > pg_dump mydb > mydb_dump_$time.out You should output STDERR to some error logfile or set MAILTO in your crontab. I guess you then would have seen an error message saying that pg_dump was not found because cron doesn't load the users environment and therefore PATH variable isn't set. I suggest you call pg_dump in your script by absolute path. Greetings, Frank Wittig ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
