Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:00:03 -0500 From: Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com> To: Joseph Simmons <josephdsimmons@gmail.com> Cc: Christopher Umina <chris@easymac.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Subject: Re: root's crontab and mysqldump Message-ID: <D5B72C56-7670-4ED0-9A54-C4F83E45254B@exit2shell.com> In-Reply-To: <1ba9cd9a0902231026t797dd129t2b54e86bb874bbf0@mail.gmail.com> References: <1ba9cd9a0902230937xc817f3dxe26a54b734d5f8ef@mail.gmail.com> <BC19BF4C-9A21-45F0-B140-0552761941E7@easymac.org> <1ba9cd9a0902231026t797dd129t2b54e86bb874bbf0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Joseph Simmons wrote: > I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it > running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. > > I have the following variables set in the root's crontab > > SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash > PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin Add /usr/local/bin to PATH because that is where the mysqldump binary is. Also, you don't need /etc in your path, pretty much ever because that directory should never have executable programs in it. -- Steven Kreuzer http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer
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