[SOLVED] Mondo Cron Job not running

davemac2626 · 04-16-2012, 10:15 AM

yes mate it is

davemac2626 · 04-16-2012, 10:17 AM

Code:

[root@backuptest mondo]# service crond status
crond (pid  14639) is running...
[root@backuptest mondo]#

Satyaveer Arya · 04-16-2012, 10:29 AM

Check some last lines of /var/log/mondoarchive.log file, if it have some error reporting?

And as per my knowledge everything seems to be fine and the cronjobs should work accordingly. I don't understand why it is not running.

chrism01 · 04-16-2012, 07:17 PM

Can I also suggest you add

Code:

... 1>/tmp/mondo.log 2>&1

to the end of each cron cmd to trap any info/errors.

Re mailx; on my system you can use mailx or mail and they are located

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# which mail
/bin/mail
[root@localhost ~]# which mailx
/bin/mailx

davemac2626 · 04-17-2012, 03:30 AM

Hi chaps

Thanks for the replies.....I have checked the /var/log/mondoarchive.log but there is nothing in there so I did was Chris said to do and added a trap to the cron job. This was the output of the log:

Code:

[root@backuptest tmp]# cat mondo.log
/bin/sh: mondoarchive: command not found

So it appears that the shell cannot find the command mondoarchive - I can see why as it can find it when you run the job manually :s
Do any of you guys know how I could now rectify this? The executable for mondo is located in usr/sbin.....

The cronjob i used was:

Code:

[root@backuptest tmp]# crontab -l
22 09 * * * mondoarchive -Oi -d /home/mondo -E "/home/mondo" 1>/tmp/mondo.log 2>&1

I shall try it with the script too and see what the output of that is....

Many thanks

Dave

davemac2626 · 04-17-2012, 05:17 AM

Guys

I tried the script and could see that the job is now running in cron!!!

Not sure why it didnt before but the main thing is that it is now!

Thanks so much for the help guys I will be sure to recommend you and try and up your rep...

Best regards

Dave

nuronce · 07-06-2012, 08:58 AM

davemac2626 · 07-06-2012, 10:42 AM

Hi

Sorry I thought I replied to this thread to say that it was working! The issue was that it was running in the background and not printing to screen! :s

So thanks all who replied it DOES work I just had to wait until the Mondo process had finished to see the iso had been comlpleted

My crontab looked like this:

Quote:

59 23 * * * /home/mondo/backup.sh 1>/tmp/mondo.log 2>&1

I also wrote a script and made it executable:

/home/mondo/backup.sh:

Quote:

#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
/usr/sbin/mondoarchive -Oi -d /home/mondo -E "/home/mondo"

Many thanks to all who contributed...

Dave

chrism01 · 07-09-2012, 08:05 PM

Code:

52 15 * * * /home/mondo/backup.sh
54 15 * * * mondoarchive -Oi -d /home/mondo -E "/home/mondo"
56 15 * * * /usr/sbin/mondoarchive -Oi -d /home/mondo -E "/home/mondo"

why run 3 copies almost simultaneously.???

Just take one eg the last and

Code:

56 15 * * * /usr/sbin/mondoarchive -Oi -d /home/mondo -E "/home/mondo" >/tmp/mondo.log 2>&1

and check the output file when it finishes.
Make sure that runs in root crontab.

Also check the local mail using 'mail' as you don't have mailx (unusual) as root.