[ale] rsync + ssh + cron

Robert Story rstory-l at 2006.revelstone.com
Tue May 23 14:24:44 EDT 2006


On Tue, 23 May 2006 13:22:02 -0400 Nathan wrote:
NJU> Thanks for the quick response.  The command line that the script is 
NJU> generating (
NJU> /usr/bin/rsync -av -e 'ssh -p 2201' /home/nathan/source/ 
NJU> nathan at lint-1:/home/nathan/destination --progress --stats --compress 
NJU> --delete ) is actually working if I just copy and paste it to a [new] 
NJU> command line.  The problem though is that it won't run from the script.

This is almost certainly due to quoting issues. I'd recomment creating an
entry for lint-1 in the users ~/.ssh/config and specify the port there,
instead of in the command line.



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