RexJacobus wrote:
> On May 5, 4:03 pm, andrew <and...@ilium.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2008-05-05, RexJacobus <rex.jaco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am not the Unix guy at my job. He left me a very simple change to
>>> do to the monthly backup before he went on holiday. I made the
>>> change but didn't put the correct permissions when I put it on the
>>> server so the monthly backup did not run over the weekend.
>>
>>> I have reset the permissions. How can I run the monthly backup job
>>> manually. I don't want to mess with cron and if it doesn't work for
>>> some other reason I will need to run the copy I archived.
>>
>> The cron job would point to a script? You should be able to simply
>> run the script.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> --http://www.andrews-corner.org
>
> The cron job runs monthly_save. When I go onto the server navigate to
> \cron and type in 'monthly_save' it just says 'command not found'.
> (if I type dir i can see it).
in UNIX the current directory is not part of PATH. Inside cron it isn't
either, so you'd need to call it fully qualified, with an absolute
filename/one begining with /) or with a relative filename (relative to the
current directory), e.g. ./monthly_save.
Howvet to test it poiperly, use the 'at' command

at now /cron/monthly_save

That way the command should get exactly the same environment as if run by
cron.

Bye, Jojo