[vox-tech] crontab and scp puzzle

[Bruce Wolk]

I tried -B as well.

On 03/16/2011 05:36 PM, Michael Wenk wrote:
> I was going to suggest the -B option, but that should be the same as
> -o BatchMode=yes ...
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> Mike
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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Kyle Ambroff<kyle at ambroff.com>  wrote:
>> 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 ...
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>> Replace "ssh" with "scp" and that still works.
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