root's crontab and mysqldump

[Peter Boosten]

Joseph Simmons wrote:
> I'm running  a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump
> as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine
> when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab
> -e) or in the system's crontab (/etc/crontab), I see that the script is ran
> in the log but it doesn't do anything. I'm able to run other cron jobs as
> root without any problem. This script is only suppose to create a file
> containing the dumped database.
>   
Include the full path of mysqldump in your crontab (either entry or script).

Peter
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