Re: [PLUG] Rsync failing in cron due to ssh permissions

[Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org>]

Same problem here... but I never found a good solution.

 

My work around has been to do stupid security things to open up the file permissions. Luckily for me, I'm in a very closed network, but if anybody here found out the details of what I did, I'd be flamed for sure! <grin>

 

 

 

On Saturday, April 14, 2012 05:42:16 PM Bill East wrote:

I've got a simple task, rsyncing a couple of directories. So I first tested in command line, then in a shell script, then in cron. The first two... worked. The last... didn't. Cron reported "failed to exec ssh - Permission denied (13)" So after some fruitless fiddling around I thought to try ssh on its own. A shell script that just did 'ssh -vv -l user -i /path/to/key destination.domain touch fred.txt'

Again, worked from the command line and the script, failed from cron. I got the incredibly helpful cron error:
/usr/bin/ssh: Permission denied.

So... /usr/bin/ssh is set to 755. I don't see anything in /etc/ssh/ssh_config that would prohibit cron from running it. The cron daemon itself is running as root - it's Dillon's crond if that's important.

Thoughts? Is this so painfully obvious I just can't see it?

Thanks

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Casey Bralla

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