On Nov 22, 2007 2:19 PM, Sorin N. Ciolofan <ciolofan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all! > > I've a small bash script backup.sh for creating dumps on my Postgre db: > > #!/bin/bash > time=`date '+%d'-'%m'-'%y'` > cd /home/swkm/services/test > pg_dump mydb > mydb_dump_$time.out > > I've edited crontab and added a line: > > 00 4 * * * swkm /home/swkm/services/test/backup.sh > > to execute the backup.sh as user swkm daily at 4 am. > > The user swkm is the user I use to create backups manually. The script > itself is executed fine if run manually but run on cron scheduler I got an > mydb_dump_$time.out file empty (of 0 kb) > > Do you have any idea about what's wrong? > > Thanks > Sorin > Hi Sorin, why don't you add a "MAILTO=<youraddress>" at the start of your crontab file, so that you can receive a report of the problem? Regards Marco -- Marco Bizzarri http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
