Hai Yi wrote: > this might be too simple a question to ask, however i am doing it anyway. > > i want to run a cron job to back up the dump files from my database > tables on a weekly basis. I've never set a cron job before. So by > following the "goolge-search" result, I did these: > > I create a text file and add a line to set time, date and my script, > name the file "cronjob.txt" > 59 23 * * * /home/hai/Scripts/backup.sh > > from CLI: crontab cronjob.txt > confirm the job: crontab -l > > then I sat tight waiting for the magic moment. Nothing happened. > > I must have missed something, what is it? > > I am using ubuntu 8.10, and I test the script manually, it works fine.
Many years ago when I use to do UUCP support for Netcom the first question we always asked was: What do your logs show? Followed up often times by: You have read your logs correct? So with those questions now asked, what do your logs show? Tony _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech