Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Works manually, but not w/ cron

[Joe Steele]

Per "man 5 crontab":

The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or % 
character, will be executed  by /bin/sh  or by the shell 
specified in the SHELL variable of the cronfile.  Percent-signs 
(%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be 
changed into new-line characters, and all data after the first % 
will be sent to the command as standard input.

--Joe

On 10/20/2009 11:43 AM, Bryan Vicknair wrote:
> The following command in cron gives me a quotation error.  Do I have
> the --remote-schema argument wrong?:
>
> Cron entry:
> ------------------
> 0 0 * * * sudo /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --print-statistics
> --exclude-globbing-filelist /home/bry/backup/vic/exclude
> --remote-schema "/usr/bin/ssh -C -i /home/bry/.ssh/id_rsa %s
> /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --server" address@hidden::/home
> /home/bry/backup/vic/home
>
> Error
> -------------------
> /bin/sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string