rsync - May 2006 - crontab doesn't start

Hi!I'm working with 2 linux, with 2 IP;I want make a copy of some files
inside one directory to the other linux.I called a file scriptx.sh in the first
linux and this is the body:
#!/bin/bash
rsync -avvz --delete --rsh=ssh --stats /home/copia/
root@192.168.xxx.xx:/home/vrrp/dir/copia/

(xxx.xx are numbers...rights..only for security I crypted them)
ok, then I create the crontab file with crontab -e and this is it:

* * * * * /bin/scriptx.sh 

(every minute crontab should run...)
But it doesn't run.....
if I run this command from the line from the first linux is all ok,it runs(it
asks me the password,I enter it,and then is all ok)
rsync -avvz --delete --rsh=ssh --stats /home/copia/
root@192.168.xxx.xx:/home/vrrp/dir/copia/

where's the problem?why doesn't crontab work?
1000000 thanks

On Tue 16 May 2006, sinidr@libero.it wrote:
> ok, then I create the crontab file with crontab -e and this is it:
> 
> * * * * * /bin/scriptx.sh
> 
> (every minute crontab should run...)
> But it doesn't run.....
> if I run this command from the line from the first linux is all ok,it
runs(it asks me the password,I enter it,and then is all ok)
Perhaps it wants to ask the password when run from cron also;
but how is it supposed to get an answer?

You need to get ssh running without needing a password / passphrase;
that's an ssh problem.


Paul Slootman

First of all you should try to execute the script
online, then when you make sure it all went ok, just
put it in crontab...

Then..
You should create ssh--keys in order to connect without
any kind of interactivity from one server to the other.

Try with ssh-keygen and then ssh-copy_id, and then
modify the rsync command to something like that:

rsync -avvz --delete -e "ssh -i "/PATH/TO/KEY" -l USER"
--stats /home/copia/ 192.168.xxx.xx:/home/vrrp/dir/copia/

You should redirect the output of your script to a file, just
to check if it runs. Like that:

* * * * * /bin/scriptx.sh>>/path/to/rsync_output.log 2>&1

Hope it helps
bi
j

sinidr@libero.it wrote:
>Hi!I'm working with 2 linux, with 2 IP;I want make a copy of some files
inside one directory to the other linux.I called a file scriptx.sh in the first
linux and this is the body:
>#!/bin/bash
>rsync -avvz --delete --rsh=ssh --stats /home/copia/
root@192.168.xxx.xx:/home/vrrp/dir/copia/
>
>(xxx.xx are numbers...rights..only for security I crypted them)
>ok, then I create the crontab file with crontab -e and this is it:
>
>* * * * * /bin/scriptx.sh 
>
>(every minute crontab should run...)
>But it doesn't run.....
>if I run this command from the line from the first linux is all ok,it
runs(it asks me the password,I enter it,and then is all ok)
>rsync -avvz --delete --rsh=ssh --stats /home/copia/
root@192.168.xxx.xx:/home/vrrp/dir/copia/
>
>where's the problem?why doesn't crontab work?
>1000000 thanks
>
>  
>