Rsync Problems

[Hunter French]

I am having problems with Rsync running between 2 FreeBSD computers.  We
are trying to use it to backup a directory on the primary server
/var/mail (using a pull method).  The configuration on the primary
server (Polaris) should be ok as it was running rsync previously before
our client server was rebuilt. On the client server (Mira) we have
installed rsync to the /usr/local/bin directory and have written the
following script to run it from the client:

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#!/bin/sh
export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/etc

/usr/local/bin/rsync -e ssh -avzr polaris.scasd.k12.pa.us:/var/mail
/var/backup/mail
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If I run this script by typing "./rsync.mail.script.sh" everything seems
to work as it displays the following:

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mira# ./rsync.mail.script.sh
receiving file list ... done
mail/
mail/agw11
mail/akf12
mail/alg13
mail/avr12
mail/axg12
mail/bab12
mail/bav11
mail/bbh12
mail/bgp11
mail/bls12
....until the end of the directories...
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I placed a file in the /var/mail directory of the primary server called
test.hunter.jan7 and it did not copy over with the directories.  I am
unsure why it did not copy over.

However, when I try to run this from cron it does not work.  It merely
runs (rsync and ssh are active in top) but nothing happens, no files are
copied and nothing seems to change.  Our cron settings are:

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# /var/mail backup
36	11	*	*	*	root
/etc/rsync.mail.script.sh
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Does anyone have an idea of what we are doing wrong?  I get no error
messages in verbose mode when running it myself.

Help.

Thanks,

Hunter
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Hunter French
Network Systems Specialist
Computer Services Department
State College Area School District
phf12 at scasd.k12.pa.us