[oclug] rsync, ssh, and cron

[Joe Burpee]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:51:28 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 07/04/04 Dave Edwards did speaketh:
> > It is dle's crontab.
> I'm confused. I thought you were doing an su to dle. No need to do that
> in dle's crontab, obviously.
 
I'm guessing he may want his login environment, hence `su - ...'.
Could also be done (in dle's crontab) with something like

* * * * * exec bash -lc 'rsync ...'

Joe