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Re: scp in crontab problem

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On 13.09.24 14:24, Marcus Park wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have put the private key into my debian VPS (in ~/.ssh/ dir).
> 
> When I scp a file from this VPS to another one by hand without password, 
> it works.
> 
> But when I put this scp into crontab, it seems not work. The scp in 
> crontab via private key didn't run as I expect, nothing was copied to peer.
> 
> Can you help?
> 
> Thank you.
> Marcus
> 

Cron doesn't know anything about your environment variables.
You can set PATH or HOME or use absolute paths.

/usr/bin/scp -i /home/userYX/.ssh/myKEY root@example.com ...

Best regards,

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  Re: scp in crontab problem basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> - 2024-09-13 14:50 +0200
    Re: scp in crontab problem Marcus Park <marp@privatembox.com> - 2024-09-14 00:30 +0200
  Re: scp in crontab problem Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-09-13 15:00 +0200
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