Rsync in cron job fails to function

[Charles Hatvany]

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

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[Edward Sh.]

I would look at the logs at remote host

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On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Charles Hatvany <[hidden email]> 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
>
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[Xin LI-5]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Charles Hatvany <[hidden email]> 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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Xin LI <[hidden email]> http://www.delphij.net
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[Charles Hatvany]

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<[hidden email]>  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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