php, crontab, mysqldump, broken head!

[Anon]

dear all,

trying to run mysqldump in php (with ` and exec etc) - i get a great result when run from shell manually (php backup.php) but when run from crontab mysqldump dosent seem to want to work - i get a 0 length file.

i know that the php scripts works ok cos of the correct output when run from the shell, only when it is run from cron no data comes from the database.

i tried also using #!bin/sh mysqldump ... and still no joy from crontab.

any ideas pls?

cheers
keith

[Anon]

doh

need to put the full path to mysqldump into the crontab command - works a treat