On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Colin Jenkins wrote: > Hi all , > having a problem with drakbackup in mdk9.0 > when I do a manual b/u, it works fine. > when I tell it to do a scheduled b/u, it creates some entry in > cron.daily, but never starts. I can create cron entries for other > tasks which work ok. > how can I tell cron to run drakbackup, with the settings in the config > file?
In cron files and their associated scripts you often need to specify the path to the executable directly since $PATH may not be set as expected. Also, try looking at the messages log and root's mail to see if there are any errors (remove the >/dev/null if it exists).
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