Absolute Begginer

_roman_ · 01-02-2018, 02:27 PM

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The rsync command runs when entered in to the command line, so does that tell me its correct?

Because your shell uses $PATH to determine the folders where to look into

There used to be FHS. as these days no one really cares where they store the binaries and config files you better check where the binary really is. Also they do not respect runlevels these days

e.g. gentoo

Quote:

ASUS-G75VW /usr/src/linux # equery belongs rsync
* Searching for rsync ...
..
net-misc/rsync-3.1.2-r2 (/usr/bin/rsync)
...

stigslim · 01-02-2018, 04:20 PM

So check where it is to be able to run it?. How would i do this?>

Deviathan · 01-02-2018, 07:31 PM

The / in /rsync is throwing off your cli. It's looking for the rsync executable in the root / and not finding it, so it does not execute anything. In your crontab, remove the / from in front your rsync command, or change it to the full path which is something more like /usr/bin/rsync.

pan64 · 01-03-2018, 02:17 AM

see post #14 again, I suggested a solution too. The problem is not the rsync executable, but the string /rsync in your crontab, which is incorrect.

stigslim · 01-04-2018, 11:29 AM

I removed the / before rsync with no luck.

*/5 * * * * /opt/bin/transmission-scheduler.sh

/0 3 * * * rsync -av --delete /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdb1/Backup /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdc1/

wpeckham · 01-04-2018, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stigslim

I removed the / before rsync with no luck.

*/5 * * * * /opt/bin/transmission-scheduler.sh

/0 3 * * * rsync -av --delete /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdb1/Backup /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdc1/

Change the

Quote:

/0 3 * * * rsync

to

Quote:

0 3 * * * rsync

and you will get a run at 03:00 daily. What exactly the "/0 3" would do I am not sure. It kicks out an error on mine and will not accept that.

pan64 · 01-05-2018, 03:36 AM

use rsync with full path, like: /usr/bin/rsync

stigslim · 01-05-2018, 12:59 PM

Going with what has been said i changed the path to.

File: crontab

*/5 * * * * /opt/bin/transmission-scheduler.sh

2 0 * * * /opt/bin/rsync -av --delete /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdb1/Backup /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdc1/

Which should run at 8PM but still no luck. I'm running it from /opt as i assume this is where Optware installs the packages, is there a chance it could be somewhere else?>

pan64 · 01-05-2018, 01:17 PM

you don't need to assume, but check:

Code:

ls -l /opt/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync /bin/rsync

and you will see immediately.

stigslim · 01-05-2018, 01:21 PM

This was the ouput.

# ls -l /opt/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync /bin/rsync
ls: /usr/bin/rsync: No such file or directory
ls: /bin/rsync: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 366456 Feb 15 2012 /opt/bin/rsync

Where does it point to, if anywhere?.

pan64 · 01-05-2018, 01:41 PM

the first two do not exist, the third one was ok, so you have /opt/bin/rsync
Now you can try something like this:

Code:

2 0 * * * /opt/bin/rsync -av --delete /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdb1/Backup /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdc1/ >/tmp/rsync.log 2>/tmp/rsync2.log

and check the content of /tmp/rsync.log and /tmp/rsync2.log later..

stigslim · 01-05-2018, 04:00 PM

How would i view a log file? is this done using an editor or just an output command. I have looked in /tmp but dont see an rsync log file, thats if i'm doing it correctly.

pan64 · 01-06-2018, 04:25 AM

there are two logfiles, and you can view them with your favorite text editor, it is a plain text file.
If they were empty (or even not created) that would mean cron is not trying to execute that line at all, most probably it is still incorrect.
check this page: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...n8/cron.8.html
you may try to run cron from command line as: cron -f -L 15 and it will print when it tries to start that rsync. Or print an error message....

stigslim · 01-06-2018, 11:46 AM

There are no log files created, which would mean its still not executing the line i wrote, is there a simple cron job that i can give it to see if its my job or the cron itself?. Cron -f and -L return errors.

# cron -f -L 15
cron: invalid option -- 'f'
usage: cron [-n] [-x [ext,sch,proc,pars,load,misc,test,bit]]
~ #

Its showing test a useable which i ran but not sure where the output goes(checked the tmp for a log)

pan64 · 01-07-2018, 05:43 AM

in post #7 you told:

Quote:

cron - 4.1-9 - Standard vixie cron, with cron.d addition

looks like it has different syntax, so probably you need to check how should it be configured.
What I found is:

Code:

2 0 * * * username /opt/bin/rsync -av --delete /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdb1/Backup /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdc1/ >/tmp/rsync.log 2>/tmp/rsync2.log

probably you need to specify a username too, but I'm not really sure about that.