Re: Rsync in cron job fails to function

I would look at the logs at remote host

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On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Charles Hatvany <[email protected]> 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/ [email protected]:/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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