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Created empty log file and nothing else

2006-10-04
2013-05-29
  • oldenoughdk

    oldenoughdk - 2006-10-04

    I am a real neophyte in this world, but am working hard to learn.  I would like to use this script in a shared host environment (linux server). With some help from my host's trouble desk I have the script executing using a cron job.

    It created a log file in the correct location, that it named mysql4.hostexcellence.com-%N.log with no entries in it and nothing in any other log file that I have access to. The name is the access address to the mysql server where the databases that I want to backup are located.  I don't know what the %N is, although it probably makes sense to you others.

    Any suggestions about what I might be doing incorrectly? 

    Thanks,
    Janet

     
    • oldenoughdk

      oldenoughdk - 2006-10-05

      OK, I don't know what it was doing, but the solution is one I got from another post in this forum.  The path to the backup folder is an absolute one, not a relative one. Once I figured out what the absolute path was on my shared host (it took a bit of trail-and-error), it solved this problem.

       

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