Hello ! I'm a newbie with rsync and I have a question maybe very simple. I try to mirroring two directories on differrent server with a cronjob every night. rsync -az -e ssh --exclude "Mail/" kuerbis.dmg.ewt.de:/home/$i/* . but i get always the error message: "You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase. unexpected EOF in read_timeout" What is my mistake? What can i do ? Thanks in advance and regards Klaus -- ewt gmbh data management group tel: ++49 821 3106 319 fax: ++49 821 3106 399 url: www.ewt.de