On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:21:23 +0400
David Jorjoliani <djorj@mysoft.ge> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have daily cron jobs for database update, which where working fine on
> Fedore Core 6. No I move it on Ubuntu Server 7.10 and postgres gives error:
>
> "unexpected EOF on client connection"
>
> while update running from cron. If I run this update manually from root
> user - it works fine. Here is update command:
>
> su -l postgres -c "gunzip -c /backup/rms.gz | psql rms"
>
> Can somebody give any suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
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In crontab you have almost no $PATH set up by default. My expectation is that it can't find gunzip. Try either setting
thePATH in the script, or using the full pathname of gunzip instead...
Cheers,
Steve
