Hi,
I'm having a very strange problem and I'm not sure where else to ask.
I've got a dotLRN installation that I've had for a the past 5 years running perfectly on Red Hat ES4. Each night we execute an automatic backup and restore onto a different server so that we have a failover environment ready for disaster recovery. These scripts are executed via crontab under the root, the dotlrn and the postgres user.
I've recently installed Red Hat 5 and have tried to get the same automatic script working. If I execute the shell script via the terminal, logged in as postgres user, it works fine. If I set up a crontab to run the same script it does not drop the database, or create the new one but will still execute the cat command to restore the database, so I get two sets of tables etc.
Script is as follows:
echo "-logged in as user - postgres" >>$logfile
echo "-drop the Database" >>$logfile
dropdb dotlrndb >>$logfile
echo "-wait for 30 seconds for the db to be dropped" >>$logfile
sleep 30
echo "-create a new Database" >>$logfile
createdb -E UNICODE dotlrndb >>$logfile
sleep 10
echo "-wait 10 seconds for the DB to create" >>$logfile
echo "-restoring database from backup">>$logfile
cat /data/restore/dotlrn_pgsql.dmp* | psql dotlrndb >>$logfile
echo "-database restore completed" >> $logfile
