Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:20:09 -0600 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Eric Six <erics@sirsi.com>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cron script problem.... Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20021211132009.01e16160@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD505E33F68@stlmail.dra.com>
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At 01:05 PM 12.11.2002 -0600, Eric Six wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am having a weird problem on a freebsd 4.7. I have two perl scripts I am
>running via cron, one is run as root to make a backup of a directory and the
>files in it, the second is run as a user to scp files to another box. What I
>am encountering is the second script is running but dying after the first
>ssh remote command. Here is what second script does; it uses ssh remote
>command to create a directory on the remote server with todays date, the
>next command is the actual recurise scp command. Here is what the script
>looks like;
>
>~begin~
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
># tar cf filename.tar pathtotar/
>
>chomp ($SCP=`which scp`);
>chomp ($SSH=`which ssh`);
>
>$pathtomakebackup="/bind_backups";
>chomp ($today=`date`);
>
>my ($day,$month,$date,$time,$timezone,$year) = split (' ',$today);
>$archive_date="$month-$date-$year";
>
>`$SSH backupuser\@server13.blah.com mkdir ~/bind_backups/nsX/$archive_date >
>/var/log/ssh.log 2>&1`;
>`$SCP -vr $pathtomakebackup/$archive_date/
>backupuser\@server13.blah.com:~/bind_backups/nsX/ > /var/log/scp.log 2>&1`;
>~end~
>
>If I run the script interactively, it works fine. From CRON it dies after
>the SSH command makes the directory on the remote server. Here is how I have
>it setup in cron;
>
>05 22 * * 1,3,5 perl /adminscripts/erics/bind_backup_scp.pl
>
>
>It works fine from cron on Solaris and Linux... anyone have any ideas?
>
>TIA
>Eric
>
Eric: I'm no script expert, but perhaps if you added the full path to perl
in the cron line. That's usually a problem....
Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator
SageOne Net
http://www.sage-one.net
jackstone@sage-one.net
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