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The problem turned out to be the crontab setting the PATH variable so that it didn't include a path to mysqldump. I was using cronnix to manipulate the crontab and just didn't realise what else was happening at the start of the crontab. Invoking mysqldump with the full path to it got everything...

Has anyone got a cron job using mysqldump working? I'm trying to redirect output from mysqldump to backup my databases in a shell script. The commands in the script and the script itself work fine when invoked from the shell, but when I run it as a cron job I just get zero length files where the...