Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

[Craig Butler]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:20 +0100, Marc Coyles wrote:
> I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely
> fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it
> always fails with "mysqldump: not found" - what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Script as follows:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> USER=
> PASS=
> 
> mysqldump --opt -h localhost -u $USER -p$PASS horbury_dppd06
> >/home/horbury/backup_mysql/dppd06.sql
> 
> 
> And that's it...
> When run as root from CLI, works with no errors. When run from cron as
> root, get the "not found" problem.
> 
> 
> Marc A Coyles - Horbury School ICT Support Team
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When it is run from cron it is not picking up the shell .profile so PATH
is not set.  As mysqldump is sitting in a directory in one of the paths
(/usr/local/bin ??) 

Quick fix use full path details in the mysqldump line.

Or

Source in a .profile .... to set the paths.

Regards

Craig B