Re: Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Skinner
Thanks! This seems to have been the problem. After finding the information cron was spitting out to the unix mail, it was apparent that the splats (*) used to short cut the paths so the command would fit into the max length of the command line where giving problems when run by cron. Don't kno

Re: Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-21 Thread Chris
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:38 -0700, Ian Skinner wrote: > We have this Rsync command that does what is desired when ran either directly > OR with a shell script. > > /usr/local/bin/rsync -vvv -P --stats -zrtpl --delete > --password-file=/export/home/webuser/.appprod - > -log-file=/exp*/h*/web*/log

Re: Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Ian Skinner wrote: We have this Rsync command that does what is desired when ran either directly OR with a shell script. /usr/local/bin/rsync -vvv -P --stats -zrtpl --delete --password-file=/export/home/webuser/.appprod --log-file=/exp*/h*/web*/logs/rsync-log --exclude "

Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-21 Thread Ian Skinner
We have this Rsync command that does what is desired when ran either directly OR with a shell script. /usr/local/bin/rsync -vvv -P --stats -zrtpl --delete --password-file=/export/home/webuser/.appprod - -log-file=/exp*/h*/web*/logs/rsync-log --exclude "*.htacc*" /exp*/h*/xter*/htdocs/ webu...@a