Re: cron help

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 Is the exec bit set? 

You could also add "-x" as the second line, and then check root's mail to 
see what it actually tried to do. 

Also, you might make sure that ruby et al are in the $PATH that cron is using... 

HTH, 
Matt 

James Kramer wrote: 
> I have a script that I use to backup my data files to the Amazon S3. 
> For it to work I need to run is as sudo (root).  I placed this script 
> into /etc/cron.weekly.  It does not run in cron.  How can I get the 
> script to run.  Here is the  script 
> 
> #!/bin/bash 
> 
> # This script backups /jdata to Amazon S3 
> 
> EXCMDS="-vs"  # you can add -n in here for testing, remove s for 
> non-ssl, remove verbosity, etc 
> SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail 
> EMAIL=root@localhost 
> 
> cd /usr/local/s3sync 
> 
> echo -e "To: ${EMAIL}\nSubject: s3backup results\nContent-type: 
> text/plain\n\n" > /tmp/s3backup.log 
> 
> #pg_dumpall -Ucdmoyer | gzip > /opt/www/db/pg_dumpall.gz 
> #/root/.pgpass is needed for this 
> ./s3sync.rb  ${EXCMDS} --delete -r /etc/ jdata_backup:etc >> /tmp/s3backup.log 
> ./s3sync.rb  ${EXCMDS} --delete -r /jdata/ jdata_backup:jdata >> 
> /tmp/s3backup.log 
> ./s3sync.rb  ${EXCMDS} --delete -r /home/jmkramer/.tomboy 
> jdata_backup:tomboy >> /tmp/s3backup.log 
> 
>  cat /tmp/s3backup.log | ${SENDMAIL} "${EMAIL}" 
> 
> Thanks for the help 
> Jay 
>