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Date:      Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:42:57 +0100
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        Charles Hatvany <charles@hatvany.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rsync in cron job fails to function 
Message-ID:  <201103082143.p28Lgv4Q087786@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:52:16 EST." <4D769700.2070309@hatvany.com> 

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Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Charles Hatvany <charles@hatvany.com> 
> Date:		Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:52:16 -0500 
> Message-id:	<4D769700.2070309@hatvany.com> 

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?

Cron I recall does not have /usr/local/bin in path ?.
Try either
	/usr/local/bin/rsync
or add local to PATH

Cheers,
Julian
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