Re: Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Skinner
Thanks! This seems to have been the problem. After finding the information cron was spitting out to the unix mail, it was apparent that the splats (*) used to short cut the paths so the command would fit into the max length of the command line where giving problems when run by cron. Don't

Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-21 Thread Ian Skinner
We have this Rsync command that does what is desired when ran either directly OR with a shell script. /usr/local/bin/rsync -vvv -P --stats -zrtpl --delete --password-file=/export/home/webuser/.appprod - -log-file=/exp*/h*/web*/logs/rsync-log --exclude *.htacc* /exp*/h*/xter*/htdocs/

Re: Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Ian Skinner wrote: We have this Rsync command that does what is desired when ran either directly OR with a shell script. /usr/local/bin/rsync -vvv -P --stats -zrtpl --delete --password-file=/export/home/webuser/.appprod --log-file=/exp*/h*/web*/logs/rsync-log --exclude

Re: Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-21 Thread Chris
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:38 -0700, Ian Skinner wrote: We have this Rsync command that does what is desired when ran either directly OR with a shell script. /usr/local/bin/rsync -vvv -P --stats -zrtpl --delete --password-file=/export/home/webuser/.appprod -