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Subject: Re: Script doesn't complete via Cron
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At 14:26 12.09.2003 -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote:
>...
>scp -q foo.zip server_name:
>rm -rf foo_dev foo.zip
>
>------
>
>Cron job ->
>------
># export, zip up and scp foo source to server_name
>17      14      *       *       *       /home/bar/bin/export-foo
>2>      /dev/null > /dev/null
>------
>
>When I execute the script by hand, it completes without any problems.
>When I let a cronjob handle it, it doesn't scp the zip file to the remote 
>server.
>I don't get any errors in /var/log/auth.log or /var/log/messages
>Anyone has any ideas on how to fix this up?

We had a similar problem with scp if I remember right. The problem was the 
remote server where a message was echoed during login with ssh (some echo 
stuff in the .profile or something like this). It seemed to be that scp got 
this echo-message too and then failed to operate. After removing the echo 
commands everything worked fine.

Note: I may be wrong, its long time ago.

Alexander

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