Re: [tlug] script fails as cron job

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

Christian Horn wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:36:08AM +0900, Charles Muller wrote:
> > It works fine, but when I run it on cron.daily, although the files
> > download, nothing gets written to the target list file. If I try it
> > with "run parts" it also works OK, but when it is run as a regular
> > cron.daily job, the same problem occurs. Can anyone suggest a cause?
> >
> > rsync -uvptl -e ssh acmuller@example.com:public_html/ddb/pcache/4*.html /mnt/win_d/docs/public_html/ddb/pcache/  > /mnt/win_d/docs/pcache-updated4.txt
>
> As already noted:
> - redirect stdout to something usefull 2>/path/file
> - use full path to rsync and to public_html
> - quote 'path/public_html/ddb/pcache/4*.html'
> - maybe provide ssh the private-key you want to use;
> /path/rsync -arve 'ssh -i /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa' acmuller@example.com ...

I did all of this, and the script now runs fine in cron.daily. Isn't 
it nice to have a simple one once in a while amidst the esoteric 
discourse (esoteric to me, that is)?

Thanks, Christian,

Chuck

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