one script does not work at crontab
 

I made a rsync backup at crontab, but this rsync backup script does not work.

However "/root/backup_script/3.mysqldb_backup.sh" works.

Please let me know how to make rsync backup script works on crontab.

Thanks in advance.

For a start we'll need to see the code and you'll have to tell us exactly what the symptoms of "does not work" are; we're not mind readers.

You should put your cronjobs in /var/spool/cron/root not /etc/crontab or edit with

Well thats how I was taught

Can you run the scripts from the commandline

It could be your permissions on that script are not correct, look in /var/log/cron for any errors. Like chrism01 said, you should post the code.

JC

jrosco/ Yes, I can run "rsync_backup.sh".

And "rsync_backup.sh" is this.

And the log part of cron is here.

The default env in cron is minimal to say the last. Best practice is to always specify complete paths to all cmds & files used unless you KNOW that the cron env will handle them correctly.... or specify a new env at the top of the script...

chrism01/ I changed and added env in cron as follows, but still not worked.

run and see where the rsync executable is located

JC

jrosco/ Thanks!
"rsync_backup.sh" works fine!