From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 15:20:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255C41065670 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:20:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from charles@hatvany.com) Received: from gatewayone.hatvany.com (gatewayone.hatvany.com [69.26.110.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD5C8FC08 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([10.0.0.254]) by gatewayone.hatvany.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p29FxSC3062354 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:59:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from charles@hatvany.com) Message-ID: <4D779AB6.7030705@hatvany.com> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:20:22 -0500 From: Charles Hatvany User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <4D758AA2.1090000@hatvany.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Rsync in cron job fails to function X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:20:37 -0000 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 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@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,