Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:20:22 -0500 From: Charles Hatvany <charles@hatvany.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rsync in cron job fails to function Message-ID: <4D779AB6.7030705@hatvany.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikMag38y6LAhiv=7NSC2wRvdW8DutwO2=uu0VWC@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D758AA2.1090000@hatvany.com> <AANLkTikMag38y6LAhiv=7NSC2wRvdW8DutwO2=uu0VWC@mail.gmail.com>
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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<charles@hatvany.com> 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,
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