Re: Database update problem from crontab on ubuntu server

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "David Jorjoliani" <djorj(at)mysoft(dot)ge>,<pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Database update problem from crontab on ubuntu server
Date: 2008-04-17 22:09:34
Message-ID: 48078446.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov
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>>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:21 PM, in message <4807B143(dot)5080006(at)mysoft(dot)ge>,
David Jorjoliani <djorj(at)mysoft(dot)ge> wrote:

> 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?

Not that this should matter, but do you have the same result with?:

su -l postgres -c "gunzip < /backup/rms.gz | psql rms"

I would recommend specifying the full path for the executables. You
don't always have the normal $PATH for the user under cron.

-Kevin

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