unattended rdiff-backup

[dean gaudet]

try running a cronjob of just "env", so you can see your environment, then
set up a shell with just that minimal environment and test it.
eventually by adding stuff to your environment vars you'll probably figure
out what's wrong.

-dean

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Michael S. Koenig wrote:

> On RedHat 7.3 w/uname -a
>
> Linux www.theanswergroup.com 2.4.18-5 #1 Mon Jun 10 15:14:29 EDT 2002 i586
> unknown
>
> I seem to have things configured OK, but I cannot get rdiff-backup to run
> from cron.  (It works fine from a command prompt.  I am running it on
> RedHat Linux 7.3 on both local and remote.  Python 2.2 installed and
> working.  SSH and Keychain installed and working.  /root/.ssh/config set
> up and working.  rdiff-backup installed in /usr/bin and in path of root
> for cron job on local and remote.  ypservices look OK, and so does
> /etc/hosts.allow and /var/yp/securenets.  The following command runs fine
> from a shell prompt:
>
> rdiff-backup primary-backup::/home/skoenig /data/backup/sue
>
> but does not work from cron.  I get the following error:
>
> >>From root@mike.theanswergroup.com Fri Aug 30 11:42:12 2002
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:40:04 -0400
> From: Cron Daemon <root@mike.theanswergroup.com>
> To: root@mike.theanswergroup.com
> Subject: Cron <root@mike> rdiff-backup primary-backup::/home/skoenig
>     /data/backup/sue
>
> Permission denied, please try again.
> Permission denied, please try again.
> Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
> Fatal Error: Truncated header string (problem probably originated
> remotely)
>
> Couldn't start up the remote connection by executing
>
>     ssh -C primary-backup rdiff-backup --server
>
> Remember that, under the default settings, rdiff-backup must be
> installed in the PATH on the remote system.  See the man page for more
> information.
>
> I get this entry in /var/log/messages on the remote host:
>
> Aug 30 11:57:03 www ypserv[7011]: refused connect from 192.168.50.1:34261
> to procedure ypproc_match
>
> I added a line:
>
> servername,root,domain_name to /etc/netgroup
>
> to no avail.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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