[NTLUG:Discuss] freebsd pisses me off

[Carl Haddick]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:37:40AM -0500, Jay Urish wrote:
> Guys, I need some help.
> 
> I am trying to kick off an rsync job from crontab on a freebsd box.
> My entry in crontab looks like this:
> 30 17 * * 1 root /etc/cronjobs/wednesday.backup
> 
> 
> /etc/cronjobs/wednesday.backup contains this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> rsync -vau --stats --delete /mnt/rdl-pdc-D/
> /mnt/daily/rdl-pdc/wednesday/ | /bin/sendEmail -f nas at rdlsupply.com -t
> jurish at rdlsupply.com -u "Wednesday backup" -s mail.rdlsupply.com
> >/dev/null &
> 
> I can kick it off from the command line and it works great!
> The complaint? When cron kicks it off, all I get is an empty email and 
> rsync dies.
> 
> 
> I don't get it..
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
> 

Freebsd isn't so bad, but try 2&>1 instead of >/dev/null so you can see
what's going wrong.

Also, I think the ampersand at the end of the command will thwart the
stdout email you need to diagnose the problem.

If you run wednesday.backup manually, does it run successfully?

Carl