rsync & cron

[tim.conway at philips.com]

(Yucky html mail formatting, by the way)
running from cron, rsync sometimes interprets stdin as a socket, which it 
takes to mean that it is being run from inetd, and should run in daemon 
mode.  I think that's fixed in more recent versions, but i don't know the 
history or theory.  best fix is to redirect all three filehandles.
There's been a lot of time passed since your question, so i'm going ahead 
an answering.  Expect corrections.

Tim Conway
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"Jiri Cvrk" <cvrk at mbox.dkm.cz>
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05/10/2002 05:16 AM

 
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hello,
 
when I use rsync from commandline (RH 7.2, ssh2), it works fine.

rsync -e ssh -a -v  zaloha at 192.168.2.100:/home/samba/m/aaa.txt  /home/m/aaa.txt

but when I try to use it in crontab such as
33 11 * * * rsync -e ssh -a -v  zaloha at 192.168.2.100:/home/samba/m/aaa.txt  /home/m/aaa.txt
</dev/null
or
33 11 * * * rsync -e ssh -a -v  zaloha at 192.168.2.100:/home/samba/m/aaa.txt /home/m/aaa.txt
 
I have also tried this rsync command in script.. and always I get the 
following.
 

 Aborted by user!
 unexpected EOF in read_timeout.
 
What should be wrong?
 
Thank you for any help.
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Jiri Cvrk (CZ)
http://digital.zde.cz