On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:00:17AM -0500, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > >I was wondering if any of you have experience debugging cron jobs. > >Here's my problem: I have three cron jobs that I run from root's >crontab that look like this (with variations for different uids): > >0 1 * * * su rpg -c /home/rpg/bin/backup-machine1 Are you using rsyncd? If not, you're probably trying to tunnel over ssh. put "export RSYNC_RSH="ssh" at the top of your backup-machine1 script. > >When I run these scripts from the command line, they work fine. The >scripts just invoke rsync (running "locally," between two different >nfs directories mounted on the same machine) to do some backups. > >But, when I invoke them from cron, I get responses like this: > >From: root at tsathoggua.mydomain (Cron Daemon) >To: root at tsathoggua.mydomain >Subject: Cron <root at tsathoggua> su rpg -c /home/rpg/bin/backup-machine1 >Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 01:00:01 -0500 (CDT) > >building file list ... rsync: error writing 4092 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe >rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(464) > >Any idea why this should happen? > >Thanks, >R >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "I got a wife and kids too but you don't see me out here stealing Imperial Droids now do ya?" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020624/b98489a5/attachment.pgp