Noob Cronjob for shell account ibackup prob

[Dwalf]

Hi bit of a noob question.

I have setup a cronjob for some ibackup scripts to run.
Basicly it runs daily and backups online via rsync. When i run the script all works 100% and site backup is uploaded to ibackup and a email notification is sent. But it seems the cronjob never runs as i never see the uploaded files nor the email. It does work manualy. The script and cron is not root and setup with the shell account user

here is the crontab -e settings

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10 3 * * 1 /var/www/web4/ibackup.mon
10 3 * * 2 /var/www/web4/ibackup.tue
10 3 * * 3 /var/www/web4/ibackup.wen
10 3 * * 4 /var/www/web4/ibackup.thu
10 3 * * 5 /var/www/web4/ibackup.fri
10 3 * * 6 /var/www/web4/ibackup.sat
10 3 * * 0 /var/www/web4/ibackup.sun

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and here is a script.

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#!/bin/bash -x
HOST=`hostname`
DATE=`date +%d.%m.%Y`
TIME=`date +%H:%M:%S`
echo "backup of $HOST at $DATE $TIME"
sleep 2
echo '[*] Dumping databases for sync'
mysqldump -u web4_u1 --password=******* web4_db1 > /var/www/web4/backup/db1.sql
tar zcf /var/www/web4/backup/db1.tgz /var/www/web4/backup/db1.sql
rm -rf /var/www/web4/backup/db1.sql
sleep 2
echo '[*] Sending to Ibackup all in ISPConfig Backup folder and site backup zip'
export RSYNC_PASSWORD=******
rsync -r -v -z -t /var/www/web4/backup ***username***@rsync.ibackup.com::ibackup/MONDAY > /var/www/web4/results.txt
echo -n ' [+] done'
sleep 2
cat /var/www/web4/results.txt | mail -s "IBACKUP COMPLETED on www.somedomain.co.uk" alerts@mydomain.com
rm -rf /var/www/web4/results.txt

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Thank any help with this will be great


Regards
Dwalf

[Dwalf]

I ended up using the root cron to run the scripts

Still would be good to know why the users shell accounts did not work.

Thanks
Dwalf

[Dwalf]

OK tested and root work 100% but users shell accounts with crontab not working at all.

Also i noticed i had to restart the cron service as below

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/etc/init.d/cron restart
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then it worked.

My Version is Version: 2.2.3

I also thought it may be a permission issue but i changed one script to

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chmod o+x script.file
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Still nothing

Cheers
Dwalf

[falko]

Have a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5635
Either use full paths to the programs in your script, or put a PATH line at the beginning (line 2).

[Dwalf]

Originally Posted by falko

Have a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5635
Either use full paths to the programs in your script, or put a PATH line at the beginning (line 2).

Thanks That helps

Regards
Dwalf