crontab + rsync problem

[Tony Arnold]

Luca,

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:56 +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> 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?

A simple option would be to source your .bash_profile script from within
the backup script. At least that way the ssh identity commands are in
one place.

Regards,
Tony.
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