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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:33:32 -0700
From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
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Subject: Re: Tar over ssh crontab - how ?
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> I have ssh setup btw two hosts for root. I have a simple backup command t=
hat I need to run
> via a cron entry.
> On the command line it runs file but in cron nothing happens absolutely.
>=20
> Please help.
>=20
> The command is:
>=20
> /usr/bin/nice --20 /usr/bin/tar -czf - /etc /usr/local/etc | /usr/bin/ssh=
 HOSTB \
> '( cd ~wash/Administration/Backups; cat > ns2_`/bin/date +\%Y%m%d`.tgz )'
>=20
> The cron entry that doesn't work is:
> 18      40      *       *       *       root    /home/wash/Administration=
/backup-ns2.sh > /var/log/ns2-backup.log 2>&1
>=20
> A real testrun gives....
>=20
> ns2# ./backup-ns2.sh=20
> /usr/bin/tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive.
> ns2#
>=20
> I really need to either log the output or mail it to myself.
>=20
> MTIA

Hmm...  I've never done this with ssh, but I know you can do this over
kerberized rsh (encrypted/secure rsh) if you get a non-expiring ticket. =20
It takes some reading, but ports/security/krb5 is pretty cool.  -sc

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Sean Chittenden

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