Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:39:43 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: Charles Hatvany <charles@hatvany.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rsync in cron job fails to function Message-ID: <4D76A21F.1000403@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D769700.2070309@hatvany.com> References: <4D769700.2070309@hatvany.com>
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Try using the full path to rsync. Vince On 08/03/2011 20:52, 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? > > Thanks, > > Charles Hatvany > Hatvany.Net > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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