rsync - May 2010 - DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7425] New: --files-from= broken when run from crontab

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7425

           Summary: --files-from= broken when run from crontab
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.0.7
          Platform: x64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: bgcladd at gmail.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


running rsync version 3.0.7 (also tried rsync-HEAD-20100501-0829GMT) debian
lenny amd64, if i call a shell script with the content:
rsync -a -e 'ssh -i /home/mapsync/.ssh/id_rsa' --bwlimit=1221
--files-from=/tmp/tf2maplist --no-relative /
mapsync at foo.com:/home/mapsync/tf2maps

Everything runs great from a shell. /tmp/tf2maplist is a file which contains
one line at a time the location of all the .bsp files found in /home, here is a
snippet from /tmp/tf2maplist:

/home/user1/srcds_l/orangebox/tf/maps/cp_generator_b4b.bsp
/home/user2/srcds_l/orangebox/tf/maps/cp_orange_n5_final.bsp

When run from the root crontab this error occurs:
rsync: change_dir "/root/home/user1/srcds_l/orangebox/tf/maps" failed:
No such
file or directory (2)

How do i stop rsync from prepending /root/ to the front of every line when run
from cron? Thanks!


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------- Comment #1 from matt at mattmccutchen.net  2010-05-13 11:45 CST -------
*** Bug 7426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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------- Comment #2 from devzero at web.de  2010-08-22 05:47 CST -------
you mean, running this from the root user`s shell works but behaves differently
 from the root crontab ?

you should check what differences exist in the environment when running from
cron.

typically, inside cron the environment is different from the shell one and also
more minimalistic, so you may have a different $PATH and perhaps it`s a
completely different rsync you are using (if there is more then one on your
system)

i recommend adding "set >/tmp/printenv_from_xyz.txt;which
rsync
>>/tmp/printenv_from_xyz.txt" and produce two files, one from a
manual run and
one from cron - and compare these for differences.
if you don`t get a clue, you may upload them here, maybe some other person
get`s a clue....


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------- Comment #3 from wayned at samba.org  2010-12-18 14:59 CST -------
I not seeing how rsync could prefix something other than the source arg that
was specified on the command-line.  Is the cron command specifying /root or
"~"
instead of "/"?


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------- Comment #4 from wayned at samba.org  2011-02-22 09:06 CST -------
If you have more information that indicates that this is an rsync issue, feel
free to supply it.  Otherwise, I'm closing this.


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