Re: Unable to run pg_dump from crontab

Dan-

Either create user "adam" in the database, or create the crontab entry under
a unix user that already has access to the database. I routinely run my
backups as the "postgres" user to ensure that I don't miss anything.

-Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Daniel Ostroff
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 5:18 PM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [ADMIN] Unable to run pg_dump from crontab

I'm trying to run a pg_dump under Crontab (FreeBSD is the OS).

The command line is:

/usr/home/jwilbur/usr/local/bin/pg_dump ShopCart >
~/usr/local/shopcart/backup/ShopCart.pgdump

I am getting the following message:

pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "ShopCart" failed: FATAL 1:
user "adam" does not exist

What can I do to correct this?

Thanks,

/Dan