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Date:      Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:14:38 -0600
From:      Shabotinsky Edward <evs@telod.net>
To:        Charles Hatvany <charles@hatvany.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Rsync in cron job fails to function
Message-ID:  <2F81A555-8A04-42E5-A150-5373EF0EA0EE@telod.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D758AA2.1090000@hatvany.com>
References:  <4D758AA2.1090000@hatvany.com>

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I would look at the logs at remote host

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On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Charles Hatvany <charles@hatvany.com> wrote:

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