rsync hangs in cron (not SSH-problem)

[Paul Slootman]

On Fri 21 May 2004, Pascal Nobus wrote:

> When used this command in cron
> 
> 00 01 * * * rsync -av --delete /mnt/web1 /mass/kuurne/day
> 00 02 * * * rsync -av --delete /mnt/web2 /mass/kuurne/day
> etc..
> 
> 
> Rsync hangs, it doesn't finish!

Does it eat cpu time, of does it just sit there?
Use commands like lsof, strace / truss to see what it's doing.
The stdout/stderr of the commands should also be redirected to a tmp
file somewhere, have a look if anything useful is written there.


Paul Slootman