crontab + rsync problem

[Luca Ferrari]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 Tony Arnold's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
> I would check to see if .bash_profile is being executed when the cron
> job runs.

It seems it is not run, an even placing such commands for the ssh identity 
in .profile or .bashrc solve the problem. Now, placing the commands in my 
backup script worked, but I don't feel this an elegant solution. Any other 
way to achieve this?

Thanks,
Luca