Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Can anyone explain this error when running rdiff-backup from cron?

[Andreas Olsson]

mån 2010-11-22 klockan 13:41 +0000 skrev Chris G:
> I have an rdiff-backup that runs as a cron job, "crontab -l" shows:-
> 
>     25 02 * * * /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup /home/isbd 
> address@hidden::backups/isbd
> 
> 
> When run from the command line this works fine:-
> 
>     chris$ /usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup /home/isbd
>     address@hidden::backups/isbd
>     /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py:148:
>     DeprecationWarning: os.popen2 is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
>       stdin, stdout = os.popen2(remote_cmd)
>     Warning: Local version 1.2.8 does not match remote version 1.2.5.
> 
> 
> But when run as a cron job (from my crontab) I get the following errors
> (mailed to me):-
> 
>     /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py:148:
>     DeprecationWarning: os.popen2 is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
>       stdin, stdout = os.popen2(remote_cmd)
>     Permission denied, please try again.
>     Permission denied, please try again.
>     Permission denied (publickey,password).
>     Fatal Error: Truncated header string (problem probably originated 
> remotely)
> ...

When you are logged in interactively, how do you auth against
address@hidden A ssh-key perhaps? If so, is the ssh-key
protected by a passphrase?

// Andreas

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