[vox-tech] crontab and scp puzzle

[Kyle Ambroff]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Kyle Ambroff <kyle at ambroff.com> wrote:
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> I know I've used this answer before on this list, and I'm sure it's annoying, but if your solution involves passphraseless ssh keys, you're doing it wrong.
> That being said, since cron is a daemon, it is not attached to a controlling terminal. That means that a script that expects to be able to read input from the user is going to fail. You can probably force it to bypass this code with BatchMode.
>     ssh -o BatchMode=yes ...
> For good measure, you could even set TERM if it's not being set.
>     env TERM=dumb ssh -o BatchMode=yes ...

Replace "ssh" with "scp" and that still works.