Re: Script runs manually, but cron fails

2009-07-27 Thread J Kenneth King
Bryan writes: > I have a backup script that runs fine when I run it manually from the > command line. When I run it with cron, the script stops running at > random points in the source code. > > The script calls rsync with the subprocess module, which in turn uses > ssh to backup files from a bo

Re: Script runs manually, but cron fails

2009-07-27 Thread Bryan
On Jul 24, 2:11 pm, Bryan wrote: > I have a backup script that runs fine when I run it manually from the > command line.  When I run it with cron, the script stops running at > random points in the source code. > > The script calls rsync with the subprocess module, which in turn uses > ssh to back

Re: Script runs manually, but cron fails

2009-07-24 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/24/2009 2:11 PM Bryan said... The script runs fine in my bash shell, what could cron be doing to interfere? It's likely environmental -- make sure you're starting with the same path, etc. Sometimes I'll create a sell script by env'ing to a bash script file and append the actual command