Re: ssh2 and scp2 fails in crontab.

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn_at_cs.niu.edu)
Date: 08/31/05 

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:28:17 GMT

Hans Blom <tocum2@yahoo.com> writes:

>I've written a few scripts that get files via scp2 and just touches a
>file at server with ssh2 to indicate successful download.
>The scripts run in Cshell.

Bad choice for scripting.

>Interactively they run like a charm and admiring myself in the mirror I
>put them into crontab for periodic running.
>And.... The little buggers fail. I get a $status of 1 (generic error).
>Anyone got any ideas what to do?

How are you handling authentication?

Host based authentication should work fine from cron. But password
based will give you problems, since there is no tty available for
prompting for a password (or a passphrase).

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