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Reed Morse
Reed Morse

Reputation: 1388

OS X + Crontab: How do you run SCP via cron?

This works fine when I run it by hand:

#!/bin/bash
eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add
/usr/bin/scp me@server:~/file ./
exit 0

However, when the cron runs the file is never touched. I know the ssh keys are right - replace that scp with an ssh and it runs fine.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1822

Answers (3)

John Hart
John Hart

Reputation: 5858

Not sure what version you are running, but in Snow Leopard cron jobs run as the user (check with whoami in your cron'd script) ... at least when the user is currently logged in.

Upvotes: 0

bryan kennedy
bryan kennedy

Reputation: 7199

You also might consider using rsync for this process instead of scp'ing the file as a cron script.

Upvotes: 2

OmnipotentEntity
OmnipotentEntity

Reputation: 17131

cron generally is run as root, have you tested this script as root to ensure that the ssh keys are in the correct location that root looks for? Or do you have your sshkeys in your user profile?

Upvotes: 1

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