Re: [GENERAL] backup of postgres scheduled with cron - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Martin Gainty
Subject Re: [GENERAL] backup of postgres scheduled with cron
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In response to Re: backup of postgres scheduled with cron  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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Good Morning Andrew

I noticed the Vixie cron responds to SIGHUP signals
Do you have any suggestions or tutorials on how Postgres would feed these event signals to Vixie cron?

Thanks/
Martin

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> 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.
>
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