Strange RSYNC behaviour via FreeNAS 0.7.2 Sabanda (revision 5637)

badger_fruit · 10-03-2011, 08:18 AM

Sorry for the vague topic/subject but that's the best way to describe my issue!
I have created a very simple SH script which is copied below.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
LOG_FILE=/myfolder/backup.log
rsync -avz /it_data backupuser@192.168.1.23:/backup/ >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1

If I log in as the local user "bob" and run it, it works 100% however, (I have shared SSH authorized_keys which means I don't need to enter a password for the SSH connection). The problem comes when I try to run the script via FreeNAS CRON.

Despite me telling it to use the user "bob", I get the following errors in the LOG_FILE ...

Quote:

Host key verification failed.
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]

Does anyone have any ideas or experience with this that could help me out?
Thank you in advance and for taking the time to read this post.

badger_fruit · 10-03-2011, 08:59 AM

UPDATE: I amended the SH script above to perform two additional actions:-
1. delete the existing $LOG_FILE
2. touch a new $LOG_FILE

Seems that despite me telling FreeNAS to run as the user "bob", the file is created by user "root" which may explain the failed passwordless SSH connection attempt ...

Code:

-rw-r--r--   1 root        managergroup      515 Oct  3 14:49 backup.log