Re: [Question][PGAgent][Jobs] - Problems running sh scripts on remote Server

You'll probably have better luck asking a pgadmin list:
https://www.pgadmin.org/support/list/.

On 2/3/21 4:13 AM, João Gaspar wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I'm a young padawan in RHEL PostgreSQL configurations.
> My past experience was in Windows Server with .bat scripts.
>
> My Environment specs:
> Client OS: Win10 Pro
> PgAdmin 4.30
>
> Remote Server with PG
> Remote OS: RHEL8.3
> PG Version: 13.1
> PG Agent: 4.0
>
> Background history:
> I set up pgagent based on this adapted to pg_agent13 and documentation:
> https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/development/using_pgagent.html
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52168081/systemd-unit-for-pgagent
>
> My job is a sh script that makes the daily backups. I test the script and
> run as expected on a remote server but when configure the job in PgAdmin
> Win10 Client using in the Code box /pathtoscript/script.sh isn´t working
> when I click on Run Now.
>
> I try to put:
>
> sh /pathtoscript/script.sh - Don't do anything to the folder of backups
>
> /pathtoscript/script.sh - Don't do anything to the folder of backups
>
>
> Checking the /var/log/pgagent_13.log I see that pgagent establish the
> connection and Execute the job:
>
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Creating DB connection: user=postgres
>  hostaddr=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=postgres
>
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Parsing connection information...
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Allocating new connection for the database
> with connection string: user=postgres dbname=postgres hostaddr=127.0.0.1
> port=5432...
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Starting job: 1
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Executing batch step1(part of job 1)
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Creating primary connection
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Parsing connection information...
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: user: postgres
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: dbname: postgres
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: hostaddr: 127.0.0.1
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: port: 5432
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Creating DB connection: user=postgres
>  hostaddr=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=postgres
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Database sanity check
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Clearing zombies
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Checking for jobs to run
> Wed Feb 3 10:04:00 2021 DEBUG: Sleeping...
>
> My question this can be a read/write permissions on destination folder to
> the user pgagent?
>
> Thank you for your time and I'm sorry if I'm asking a silly question.
>
>
> Best regards,
> João Gaspar

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