Rsync in cron job fails to function

[Vincent Hoffman]

Try using the full path to rsync.

Vince

On 08/03/2011 20:52, 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles Hatvany
> Hatvany.Net
>
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