Hi bit of a noob question. I have setup a cronjob for some ibackup scripts to run. Basicly it runs daily and backups online via rsync. When i run the script all works 100% and site backup is uploaded to ibackup and a email notification is sent. But it seems the cronjob never runs as i never see the uploaded files nor the email. It does work manualy. The script and cron is not root and setup with the shell account user here is the crontab -e settings ****************************** 10 3 * * 1 /var/www/web4/ibackup.mon 10 3 * * 2 /var/www/web4/ibackup.tue 10 3 * * 3 /var/www/web4/ibackup.wen 10 3 * * 4 /var/www/web4/ibackup.thu 10 3 * * 5 /var/www/web4/ibackup.fri 10 3 * * 6 /var/www/web4/ibackup.sat 10 3 * * 0 /var/www/web4/ibackup.sun ****************************** and here is a script. ****************************** #!/bin/bash -x HOST=`hostname` DATE=`date +%d.%m.%Y` TIME=`date +%H:%M:%S` echo "backup of $HOST at $DATE $TIME" sleep 2 echo ' [*] Dumping databases for sync' mysqldump -u web4_u1 --password=******* web4_db1 > /var/www/web4/backup/db1.sql tar zcf /var/www/web4/backup/db1.tgz /var/www/web4/backup/db1.sql rm -rf /var/www/web4/backup/db1.sql sleep 2 echo ' [*] Sending to Ibackup all in ISPConfig Backup folder and site backup zip' export RSYNC_PASSWORD=****** rsync -r -v -z -t /var/www/web4/backup ***username***@rsync.ibackup.com::ibackup/MONDAY > /var/www/web4/results.txt echo -n ' [+] done' sleep 2 cat /var/www/web4/results.txt | mail -s "IBACKUP COMPLETED on www.somedomain.co.uk" [email protected] rm -rf /var/www/web4/results.txt ******************************** Thank any help with this will be great Regards Dwalf
Never mind I ended up using the root cron to run the scripts Still would be good to know why the users shell accounts did not work. Thanks Dwalf
Root work fine OK tested and root work 100% but users shell accounts with crontab not working at all. Also i noticed i had to restart the cron service as below *********************** /etc/init.d/cron restart *********************** then it worked. My Version is Version: 2.2.3 I also thought it may be a permission issue but i changed one script to ****************** chmod o+x script.file ****************** Still nothing Cheers Dwalf
Have a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5635 Either use full paths to the programs in your script, or put a PATH line at the beginning (line 2).
