[Cialug] Cron PHP job

[Tony Bibbs]

...and ensure the user the cron is run as has access to everything it 
needs.  I'm guess you've done that already, though.

David Champion wrote:
> Chris Van Cleve wrote:
>> I have a cron job set to run every night at 12:05 AM. It's executes a PHP
>> script that backs up a MySQL database server, pipes the output through
>> gzip, then removes any backups older than 7 days.
>>
>> When run from the command line, it runs perfectly fine. When run through
>> cron, I get an 8KB gzip file rather than a 20MB gzip file. Any ideas why
>> the script runs successfully, but doesn't actually dump the databases 
>> when
>> executed via cron?
>>
>> I'm stumped.
>>
> 
> Check to see if everything in the script is using absolute paths - cron 
> jobs are really picky about that.
> 
> -dc
> 
> 
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