Rsync X fine in Terminal in Finder but issues when run as cron…

[Phil Welbourn]

I have an RsyncX script between two Xserves (one Intel, one original PowerPC model). The script works fine when logged in as Admin and run from the Terminal. However when run as a cron job, the data is synchronized as expected but the rsync process doesn’t seem to quit. On both Xserves Activity Monitors, multiple instances of the process build up over time, hogging the processors.

Manually running the script nicely launches, does its job then quits.

I’m using an SSH tunnel between the two.

Anybody got any ideas?

Many thanks.

[Dean_Shavit]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Phil+Welbourn[/u][p]I have an RsyncX script between two Xserves (one Intel, one original PowerPC model). The script works fine when logged in as Admin and run from the Terminal. However when run as a cron job, the data is synchronized as expected but the rsync process doesn’t seem to quit. On both Xserves Activity Monitors, multiple instances of the process build up over time, hogging the processors.

Manually running the script nicely launches, does its job then quits.

I’m using an SSH tunnel between the two.

Anybody got any ideas?

Many thanks.[/p][/QUOTE]

This is a fairly basic suggestion, but when you reference rsync in your script and/or cron job, do you use the full path to the rsync binary in /usr/local? Or do you leave it up the the system to determine which of the two rsync binaries to use?

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