root's crontab and mysqldump

[Steven Kreuzer]

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.

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