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Subject: RE: Can cron run ssh commands?
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:43:18 -0500
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From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
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Of course, a simpler alternative to setting up
'ssmtp' with cron would be to write your
cron job to redirect the output of 'ssh -v ...'
to a file.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harig, Mark A. 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:40 PM
> To: nathan AT sleepygeek DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: Can cron run ssh commands?
> 
> 
> 
> Try adding '-v' to your ssh command in your cron job.
> This assumes that you have cron's integration with
> email working.  If you don't have the 'ssmtp' package
> installed (via setup.exe), then you'll want to do that
> so that any output is emailed to you.
> 
> See: /usr/doc/Cygwin/
>                      cron.README
>                      ssmtp-<version>.README
> 
> Of course, you should probably start with a simpler
> cron job, say, the output of '/usr/bin/env' so that
> you can see what cron thinks its environment is.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nathan Barham [mailto:nathan AT sleepygeek DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:09 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Can cron run ssh commands?
> > 
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to use Cygwin to rsync between an NT 4 server and 
> > a Win2K server, 
> > using the "-e ssh" option to rsync.  It works beautifully at 
> > the command line 
> > like this:
> > 
> > rsync -e ssh -trzv --delete /d/winapps/ 
> Administrator AT baby:/c/winapps
> > 
> > My problem is that this won't work from cron, nor will any of 
> > the other Openssh 
> > tools (scp, ssh etc).  I have Cygwin sshd running as 
> > Administrator on the remote 
> > W2K box, i.e.*without* privsep.  I have Cygwin cron running 
> > as SYSTEM on the 
> > local NT 4 box.  I've tested cron and it works except for ssh 
> > stuff.  I also 
> > have ssh-agent loaded on the local box (via keychain), and I 
> > can ssh to the 
> > remote box as Administrator without typing a passphrase.
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure my problem is related to permissions of the 
> > SYSTEM user and/or 
> > the switching of user context, but I can't figure out what to 
> > change.  I've read 
> > the user guide and FAQ, googled, and searched the mail 
> > archives, but if it's 
> > there I'm missing it.  Has anyone out there managed to 
> > automate ssh commands 
> > from cron?  If so can you please enlighten me, or at least 
> > kick me in the 
> > direction of self-enlightment?
> > 
> > cygcheck stuff for each machine is attached.
> > 
> > Thanks tons for any help.
> > 
> > Nathan Barham
> > 
> 
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