Rsync in cron job fails to function
Shabotinsky Edward
evs at telod.net
Tue Mar 8 23:42:26 UTC 2011
I would look at the logs at remote host
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On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Charles Hatvany <charles at hatvany.com> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles Hatvany
> Hatvany.Net
>
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