Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

[Roger Mason <rmason@esd.mun.ca>]

Hi Dirk,

Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de> writes:

> Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb Roger Mason:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to use rsync to back up my home directory on "mymachine" to
>> another machine (backup_machine) using a cron job.
>
> Which cron?

vixie-cron

>> This is the crontab entry (in rmason's crontab):
>>
>> 0,15,30,45 * * * *      rmason /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason
>> backup_machine:mymachine_rmason
>
> Shouldn't this be 
>
> 0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/rmason 
> backup_machine:mymachine_rmason

I already tried it without the rmason prepended to the command: no
difference.  FWIW I tried scp and had the same problems.  I think it
has to do with the backup_machine not reading my public ssh key, maybe
because the session is not interactive.

Thanks,
Roger 
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