Rsync in cron job fails to function

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Charles Hatvany <charles at hatvany.com> 
> Date:		Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:52:16 -0500 
> Message-id:	<4D769700.2070309 at hatvany.com> 

Charles Hatvany wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure if there is a better place to ask this question.  I have a 
> shell script (single line):
> 
> rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /root/cron/web-rsync-key" /usr/home/ 
> root at 10.0.0.232:/usr/home > /etc/rsync/output
> 
> which works fine if I run it from a prompt as:
> 
> /etc/rsync/sync
> 
> and produces output as expected to file /etc/rsync/output.
> 
> crontab contains (single line):
> 
> 0,10,20,30,40,50        *       *       *       *       root /etc/rsync/sync
> 
> Cron log shows:
> 
> Mar  7 15:40:02 web /usr/sbin/cron[66012]: (root) CMD (/etc/rsync/sync)
> 
> BUT, output contains nothing (assuming I reset it to that before cron 
> executes the job.
> 
> Any ideas or a better place to ask this or a way to debug it?

Cron I recall does not have /usr/local/bin in path ?.
Try either
	/usr/local/bin/rsync
or add local to PATH

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com
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