From owner-ssh@clinet.fi Fri Dec 24 03:21:34 1999 Received: from mail.clinet.fi (mail.clinet.fi [194.100.0.7]) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA15158; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 03:21:34 +0200 (EET) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by mail.clinet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA20142 for ssh-outgoing; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 03:07:26 +0200 Received: from calvin.linfield.edu (calvin.linfield.edu [192.147.171.1]) by mail.clinet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA20138 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 03:07:25 +0200 Received: from dsl528 (oldoak.linfield.edu [10.218.100.235]) by calvin.linfield.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA01117; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:06:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00a701bf4dab$2f195940$5ef2c9cc@dsl528.macdsl.com> Reply-To: "Philip D. Seth" From: "Philip D. Seth" To: "Nancy Lin" , Subject: Re: Problems running scp via a crontab shell script Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:07:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Precedence: bulk Hi, Nancy, You may need to use the full path to scp (e.g., /usr/local/bin/scp) with crontab. Jobs run from cron usually have a limited path which may not include the directory where scp is installed. Regards, Philip D. Seth, System/Database Administrator Linfield College, phils@linfield.edu But behold, I say unto you that ye must pray always, and not faint... -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Lin To: ssh@clinet.fi Date: Thursday, December 23, 1999 4:20 PM Subject: Problems running scp via a crontab shell script > #!/bin/sh > scp -p machine1:/file1 ./file1 > scp -p file1 machine2:/file1 > scp -p file1 machine3:/file1 > scp -p file1 machine4:/file1 > ... > >I've been able to get it to work with scp1 (1.2.27) using .shosts, BUT >only by executing it on the command line. It just doesn't do anything >when I try to execute the script through a crontab.