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Old 05-10-2004, 08:48 PM   #1
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cron jobs not running


hi all,

i'm having a problem with my cron jobs on our Debian 3.01 server.

here's a snippet of the 'root' crontab:

# MONDAY backup TUESDAY AM: Net to BACKUP1
0 4 * * 2 root sudo -u jared rsync -a /RAID/Net/ jared@backup:/BACKUP1/Net/

this particular job backs up data to a remote machine, as the user 'jared' (which has password-less ssh setup.)

i restart the cron daemon after every change. why aren't these jobs running?

here's the log:

May 9 04:00:01 BENT00 /USR/SBIN/CRON[16094]: (root) CMD (root^Isudo -u jared rsync -a /RAID/Net/ jared@backup:/BACKUP3/Net/)


is there something in the logs on the receiving machine i could check?

thanks.
 
Old 05-11-2004, 01:17 PM   #2
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It may have passwordless ssh set up but you aren't using it - take a look at:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=80

You may also want to start creating logs to find these errros - just add this at the end:
> /var/log/backup-job.log 2>&1
 
Old 05-11-2004, 01:24 PM   #3
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i should have noted that, when i run the job manually password-less ssh (and everything else) works just fine.

i'll try adding the line for the new log. won't i just end up with the same message that i already posted though?

thanks for the help.
 
Old 05-11-2004, 01:29 PM   #4
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I think you'll get another error but you still don't appear to be using ssh - to do that you will need to use "-e ssh".
 
Old 05-12-2004, 05:27 PM   #5
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actually, i'll just add the '-e ssh' option for now.

what does this do? "2>&1"
 
Old 05-13-2004, 01:03 PM   #6
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It redirects stderr to stdout.
 
Old 05-14-2004, 08:53 PM   #7
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well, it still didn't work with the '-e ssh' option. :/

i'll post the custom cron log after tonight. thanks again.
 
Old 05-25-2004, 04:21 PM   #8
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hmmm, found this in the log...looks unrelated. *sigh*

/bin/sh: root: command not found

could it be an error in my crontab entry? (user: root?)
btw, i'm using 'crontab -e' to edit. what's /etc/crontab for?
 
  


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