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

James Seward jamesoff at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 09:28:28 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Marc Coyles
<mcoyles at horbury.wakefield.sch.uk> 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?

Things started from cron inherit a different PATH. Either add the
appropriate directories to PATH or specify the full path to mysqldump.

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/JMS


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