Hi Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb Roger Mason: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to use rsync to back up my home directory on "mymachine" to >> another machine (backup_machine) using a cron job. > > Which cron? vixie-cron >> This is the crontab entry (in rmason's crontab): >> >> 0,15,30,45 * * * * rmason /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason >> backup_machine:mymachine_rmason > > Shouldn't this be > > 0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason > backup_machine:mymachine_rmason I already tried it without the rmason prepended to the command: no difference. FWIW I tried scp and had the same problems. I think it has to do with the backup_machine not reading my public ssh key, maybe because the session is not interactive. Thanks, Roger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
