Cron Job

[anjudosh]

Please help.
I have a cron job that is not working. The cron job calls a script that works fine in shell. I have placed the script in /bin. the script is
#!/bin/sh/
rsync -avz /mnt/TwoTerra/Documents /mnt/TwoFiftygig

..so its very simple.
I have set the cron job to user-root and command to /bin/testy1 (the name of the script in /bin)

The error email i receive is
/bin/testy1.sh: {rtf1ansiansicpg1252cocoartf1504cocoasubrtf820: not found
/bin/testy1.sh: 2: Syntax error: "}" unexpected

I'm using FreeNAS-11.0-RC2 (a4687be8c)

Thanks.

 

[Christian 128]

Hi,
do you try your RSYNC command alone ? for be sure they work well....

I tell you, because I have issue with RSYNC few days a go and I made many thing for try to know what is the problem..... for some on on the forum Spearfoot send me the solution he found.

I joint the solution work for me : https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...rmissions-support-for-windows-datasets.43973/

and I joint the post I made earlier this morning about my issue with RSYNC :
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/rsync-not-all-file-are-copied.54671/

let us know if you will found solution at your bug


Regards
Christian

 

[Johnnie Black]

Why not make the cron job the rsync command? It's what I did, just make sure to include the path, e.g.:

/usr/local/bin/rsync -blahblah /source /destination

 

[Jailer]

Why not make the cron job the rsync command? It's what I did, just make sure to include the path, e.g.:

/usr/local/bin/rsync -blahblah /source /destination

Same here and it works flawlessly for over a year now.

 

[anjudosh]

Johnnie Black and Jailer, thank you very much. That works great.

I still don't get why the other methods don't work but that's for another day.

Thanks again.

Tony.

 

[joeschmuck]

I'm not familiar with those error messages but did you chmod +x for the script?

Also, if you are creating your own scripts you should store them on your pool (eg. /mnt/pool/scripts/) and then create a cron job to call the script this way they do not disappear after an upgrade/reboot.

Same here and it works flawlessly for over a year now.

And the same here, works for me very well and doesn't require any scripting.