Re: scp in crontab problem

[basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de>]

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,