On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup
with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog:
# crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup
I can run the script manually with # /home/haines/scripts/backup.
Cron daemon is running:
$ ps -ef | grep cron | grep -v grep root 8972 1 0 12:37 ?
00:00:00 cron
It's most likely that your script is using some environment variable
that's not (inherently) present to the cron daemon; or a pathing issue
(e.g. ~/Documents is different to you than it is to the [root] Cron job).