root's crontab and mysqldump

[Joseph Simmons]

Adding /usr/local/bin gives the same result.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at exit2shell.com>wrote:

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> On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Joseph Simmons wrote:
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>  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
>>
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> 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.
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> Steven Kreuzer
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