RE: ???solution??? --> can't run pg_dump in sh script usi ng crontab

   Thank you for your help.

   I managed to get an output by mail:

"/opt/postgresql/bin/pg_dump: error in loading shared libraries:
libpq.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

   I've just found a solution from old postgresql archive:
"You can just put the postgresql lib directory in /etc/ld.so.conf and run
ldconfig."
   It seems to be working. I've just got a dump file.
   But I have a question: is this solution enough for successful pg_dump
or I have to do something else to exclude failure ?

   Thanks
   Slava

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Huber [mailto:schweinsaug@crosswinds.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 5:31 PM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] can't run pg_dump in sh script using crontab



>    But I get nothing if I run it using cron.
>    I think, may be oracle pg_dump can't find database
>"dbname" when it runs by crontab ?


Ist your crontab a systemwide one? (ie: /etc/crontab ?) this one's normally
run as root, but you may specify a special user. does your script run as
root, too? So you might ewant to un your script as
* * * * * su - oracle -c '/path/to/script/yourscript'

Stefan