kind of embarrassment, where to look?
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Tony Cratz<cr...@hematite.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech