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:D many thanks!

Thanks. Will it create te www-user group too, or is that something to do manually?

I'd try but I'm away from the server now.

Hi there.

I'm setting up my first "proper" server using RHEL - in the past I've only had various test servers etc running, so want to make sure I'm doing things properly.

When installing s/w,...

I want to connect to a remote server which I have a mySQL DB on, and do a mysqldump so I have a backup. I will likely schedule this with CRON to run every night.

However, to make any changes to...

Working now, many thanks!

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When run from the command prompt, it says it can't open the file that I'm trying to move in the script.

BUT if i CD to /home/users/ElburdNDL/www/cgi-bin and THEN run the script, it's fine.

The...

Thanks.

I've tried both:

12 12 * * * perl /home/users/ElburdNDL/www/cgi-bin/script.pl

and

12 12 * * * /home/users/ElburdNDL/www/cgi-bin/script.pl
(the latter having the...

In the same sense as above, would a perl execution look like

12 12 * * * perl /path/to/script.pl

Or would the #!/usr/bin/perl line of the script suffice?

THanks,
Ed

Many thanks - that did it!

Ed

This is a line from my crontab:

12 12 * * * /home/users/ElburdNDL/www/backups/adddate.php

The permissions of the script is 755 it should execute ok....but it doesn't.

Do I somehow have to...

RIght. When typing echo $shell it returns

/bin/tcsh

The way I get to the window where I enter the cron commands, is by typing "crontab -e" at the first window I come to when I enter my...

It's now returning

backup{`date +%d%m%Y`}.sql

as the filename!!!!!

I'm a newbie to Unix, so I hope I'm write in saying the declaration of the variable should go on the first line of the file...

OK. Still having problems :)

So the first line of my crontab is:

TODAY=$(date +%d%m%Y)

and the filenamr part of the cron command is:

backup$TODAY.sql

So what is wrong?

That returns...

THanks for the reply. I've made the today variable in the way you say, but when it makes the backup file, it simply returns the file name as "backup_forum-date + %d-%m-%Y.sql"!!

What's going...

Could someone advise of the code to get a filename to have the date of creation in it?

I've the code to dump an SQL DB to a file, but would like it to have the date it.

Also, what is the code...

Thanks for the reply!

I'm a total newbie to Unix, so is there a script available on the web I could download, and adapt a little?

Can CRON run any form of script? I could for example code...

Thanks for the all the help last evening on CRON jobs. It's now working.

Is it possible with cron to save a backup of a file to a different server or location? The idea being that if one host...

Thanks for the reply. Like I said, I'm a total newbie, and when I type in EDITOR=vi it gives me an error "command not found".

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Ed

Hi,

I am a total newbie to all things Unix. I've worked out I need to set up something that will allow me to automatically backup a DB for me, the DB is for a foum system I run.

Now, I've only...