Which user are you setting the cron job for? It presumably needs to be
root or backuppc?

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 04:36 -0400, mox wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a box Suse 11.1  with a service that (I dont know why) every day stop 
> at the same time. Im finding why it come to a halt but in the meantime  I 
> would like restart it automatically.
> As root I insert in crontab the line:
> 
> 25      16      *       *       *       /etc/init.d/backuppc start
> But it dont works
> 
> If I launch manually /etc/init.d/backuppc start (or stop) it works!
> What Iam wrong? How I can automatically restart the service?
> 
> Thanks  :)
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