Rsync in cron job fails to function

[Charles Hatvany]

Thank you to all who have responded.  The path to rsync was actually in 
$PATH, but that was undefined within cron.  The full path did the trick. 
  Thanks!!!

Charles

On 3/8/2011 6:41 PM, Xin LI wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:47 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?
>
> Common problem would be rsync is not in $PATH and you didn't specified
> full path.  Try either adding it into PATH on the crontab, or using
> full path and see if that helps?
>
> Cheers,