Re: [ADMIN] backup of postgres scheduled with cron - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marco Bizzarri
Subject Re: [ADMIN] backup of postgres scheduled with cron
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Msg-id 3f0d61c40711220559s2f4b7acbu2fb38223d79c524b@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [ADMIN] backup of postgres scheduled with cron  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
Responses Re: [ADMIN] backup of postgres scheduled with cron  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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On Nov 22, 2007 2:53 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Marco Bizzarri wrote:
> >
> > why don't you add a "MAILTO=<youraddress>" at the start of your
> > crontab file, so that you can receive a report of the problem?
>
> Note: check that your cron accepts such an addition.  Many systems now use
> Vixie's cron, which does accept that, but some don't.  It's a nice feature,
> and good for this purpose.

Andrew, can you confirm the previous statement? I'm checking on a Debian Linux,
at it seems to be a Vixie Cron, and that feature is described in the man page...

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Marco

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