I have a NAS1 that makes a backup to another NAS2 using a scheduled rscync script which starts around 04:05. NAS1 has a user account "backup" which is able to ssh to NAS2 using no password. (rsync uses ssh under water so this is convenient). The script is started via a cron job. However, when the script is run via cron, I get this error message: rsync: Failed to exec ssh: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(84) [sender=3.0.5] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32) rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at io.c(1509) [sender=3.0.5] When I start the script as root, it all works fine. Who understands what needs to be solved? Thanks very much! The cron job entry is this: Code: root@DLINK:~# crontab -l 5 4 * * * /ffp/bin/snapshotMYBOOKWORLD.sh This is the script: Code: root@DLINK:~# more /ffp/bin/snapshotMYBOOKWORLD.sh #!/bin/sh # Dit script is voor de MYBOOKWORLD # User backup van de Dlink kan zonder password ssh naar user fweijers op de Mybookworld. srcpath='/mnt/HD_a2/DOCUMENTEN /mnt/HD_a2/VIDEO/EIGEN* /mnt/HD_a2/FOTOS' datum=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"` echo $datum >> /ffp/log/snapshotMYBOOKWORLD.log 2>&1 /ffp/bin/su -c "/ffp/bin/rsync -av $srcpath [email protected]:/shares/internal/BACKUPNAS >> /ffp/log/snapshotMYBOOKWORLD.log 2>&1" backup datum=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"` echo $datum >> /ffp/log/snapshotMYBOOKWORLD.log 2>&1 root@DLINK:~# As you can see, I used a "su -c <command> <username>" construction. My thought was that there lies the problem …I was thinking of PATH settings for user backup, but those PATH settings seem ok: Code: root@DLINK:~# echo $PATH /ffp/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/ffp/bin:/usr/bin:/bin root@DLINK:~# su - backup backup@DLINK:~$ echo $PATH /ffp/bin:/usr/bin:/bin backup@DLINK:~$ root@DLINK:~# ls -l /ffp/bin/ssh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 256336 May 19 2009 /ffp/bin/ssh root@DLINK:~# ls -l /ffp/bin/rsync -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 373820 Mar 3 2009 /ffp/bin/rsync
Solved just add a PATH setting to the script run by crontab and all is good. Code: export PATH=/ffp/sbin:/ffp/bin:$PATH
