cron.weekly

[Eric Dunbar]

I'm no cron guru  so you may not find an answer with me but (I modify
my cron with http://www.webmin.com (available through yum) ;-)...

There are a few things that come to mind:
1. check your system mail using mail for the relevant account and see
if there are any messages in there regarding your cron job
2. use an absolute path for tar so you don't have to worry about the
PATH statement? (locate tar|grep bin... on my system it's /bin/tar)
3. use webmin to set up your cron job :)
4. run the job every few minutes until you're done troubleshooting.

Eric.

On 4/29/05, Drew Lane <drew.lane at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Having some trouble with cron.weekly.
> 
> I made up a very simple script to backup my web directory
> using tar and put it in the cron.weekly directory so that it would
> make a weekly backup.
> 
> The script is executable and works if I run it manually.
> 
> Thing is, it doesn't seem to be running from cron.weekly.
> 
> I checked /var/log/cron and I don't see it listed.
> 
> It should have run by now, as I did this a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> crontab looks like this:
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/
> 
> # run-parts
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> 
> script looks like this:
> 
> tar -zcpf /mnt/jaz/www.tar.gz /var/www -X exclude
> 
> What else should I check?  Could it be a path problem?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Drew