Re: pg_dumpall in crontab doesn't work

Werner Modenbach wrote:
> Guthrie, John wrote:
>
> > keep in mind that cronjobs don't get your login environment, so things
> that
> > work in interactive mode often fail in cron unless you make sure to set up
> > the environment there too.
> >
> Thanks John,
>
> actually I didn't know that :-(
> In the meantime I added the "</dev/null" as proposed by Tom and it works
> fine now :-))
> Seems like pg_dump needs it. Maybe this can be improved in future?

Is there a password involved in any of the databases?

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